Suicide In Arthur Miller's Death Of A Salesman

Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman depicts one man’s tragic life and death as he tries to free and unmerited favor of God into his family. While reading Death of a Salesman from a Psychological stand point allows you to see the struggle and the downfall of one man’s fight trying to be very successful but also fail at being successful. Many of us wonder if Willy committing suicide is actually his own fault. Willy is confused by a system that drives its men into a frantic scare when it comes to consuming dreams of being very successful and it can also be detrimental to someone’s life trying to be as successful as possible but not succeeding. With Willy getting a demotion, he is making less money to support him and his wife Linda. As Willy
drives he is just delusional he talks to himself more and more and with him running red lights and being all over the road that and his horrible sales count is causing a lot of stress, with the stress it starts to make him hallucinate. Willy invites his friend Charley over to play cards and while they are playing Willy thinks his dead brother Ben is sitting there right next to them playing. As Willy is talking to Ben he is also talking to Charley which upsets Charley because Willy isn’t paying attention to the card game. Charley ends up leaving and going home with Willy still there talking to a ghost of his dead brother. Willy asks Ben how he became successful, so Ben tells him he went to Africa and was working in the Diamond mines and that’s how he became successful.