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Submitted by lilone2-7 on December 19, 2005
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The Powerful Conclusion of Death of a Salesman
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The play "Death of a Salesman" shows the final demise of Willy Loman, a
sixty-year-old salesman in the America of the 1940's, who has deluded
himself all his life about being a big success in the business world. It
also portrays his wife Linda, who "plays along" nicely with his lies and
tells him what he wants to hear, out of compassion. The book describes the
last day of his life, but there are frequent "flashbacks" in which Willy
relives key events of the past, often confusing them with what is
happening in the present. His two sons, Biff and Happy, who are in their
30's, have become failures like himself. Both of them have gone from
idolizing their father in their youth to despising him in the present.
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On the last few pages of the play, Willy finally decides to take his own
life ([1] and [2]). Not only out of desperation because he just lost his
job, with which he was hardly earning enough to pay ordinary expenses at
the end. He does it primarily because he thinks that the life insurance
payout [3] will allow Biff to come to something [4], so that at least one
of the Lomans will fulfill his unrealistic dream of great wealth and
success. But even here in one of his last moments, while having a
conversation with a ghost from the past, he continues to lie to himself by
saying that his funeral will be a big event [2], and that there will be
guests from all over his former working territory in attendance. Yet as was
to be expected, this is not what happens, none of the people he sold to
come. Although perhaps this wrong foretelling...
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