Why Willy Loman Went Crazy?
Bill Cosby once said, "I don't know what the key to success is, but I know that the key to failure is trying to please everyone." Arthur Miller created a character who in many ways was directly related to the statement of that exact quote. Willy Loman was his name, selling was his game. All his life, Willy tried to achieve the "American Dream." Therefore, Willy had to do things in an American way and think like a capitalist. Willy was a hard worker, yet it seemed as though nothing ever went right for him. The American society and mental outlook were probably the two most influential motives that caused the pure products of America to go crazy.
The American society operated with self-interest. People, for the most part, only cared about themselves. Willy, on the other hand, was the type of person that practically tried to please everybody. To please everybody, the act of sacrificing was inevitable. However, Willy did not sacrifice something that could have been purchased, or anything of that nature. He sacrificed his greatest possession of all: his life. All Willy did was work, all the way until he was fired from his job. He always tried to have a normal family, which obviously never happened with two rebellious sons and a scapegoat of a wife, yet he always tried to be successful.
Willy started out as a lower middle-class workingman, and in the end, he ended up that same way. He believed wholeheartedly in the American dream of success and wealth, but he never achieved it. Neither one of his sons fulfilled his hope and dream that they would succeed where he had failed miserably. When his illusions of himself began to fail under the pressing reality of his actual conditions, Willy's mental health began to fall apart. The mental struggle with himself proved to be too much and
Caused him to commit suicide so that his family could collect on his $20,000 insurance policy.
Mental outlook or our state of mind and the way people looked and understood things and
The American society operated with self-interest. People, for the most part, only cared about themselves. Willy, on the other hand, was the type of person that practically tried to please everybody. To please everybody, the act of sacrificing was inevitable. However, Willy did not sacrifice something that could have been purchased, or anything of that nature. He sacrificed his greatest possession of all: his life. All Willy did was work, all the way until he was fired from his job. He always tried to have a normal family, which obviously never happened with two rebellious sons and a scapegoat of a wife, yet he always tried to be successful.
Willy started out as a lower middle-class workingman, and in the end, he ended up that same way. He believed wholeheartedly in the American dream of success and wealth, but he never achieved it. Neither one of his sons fulfilled his hope and dream that they would succeed where he had failed miserably. When his illusions of himself began to fail under the pressing reality of his actual conditions, Willy's mental health began to fall apart. The mental struggle with himself proved to be too much and
Caused him to commit suicide so that his family could collect on his $20,000 insurance policy.
Mental outlook or our state of mind and the way people looked and understood things and