Death of a Salesman
Alex Barnett
Professor Wright APELANG
25 April 2013
Death of a Salesman deals with a loss of identity and a man's inability to accept change within himself. The play is the memories, dreams, confrontations, and arguments, that make up the last 24 hours of Willy Loman's life. The three major themes within the play are denial, contradiction, and order versus disorder. While the article, “Causes of suicide not always straightforward”, discusses the factors that can cause a perfectly normal person to commit suicide. The main topics in this article are related to the play in various reasons including a mental illness, a thought of suicide, a feeling of guilt or shame, and a hectic reality.
Each member of the Loman family is living in denial. Willy is incapable of accepting the fact that he is a mediocre salesman. Instead Willy strives for his version of the “American dream”. Instead of acknowledging that he is not a well-known success, he chooses to relive past memories and events in which he is perceived as successful. This mental illness is what drove willy to the point of insanity. This state of mind is considered a mental illness because he can not control what is happening to his mind. In the minds of the public suicide is related to a mental illness. The reason being no one in their right mind would commit suicide. To that person they may be thinking this is the only solution. That is not a mental illness it is them finding the simplest solution to put themselves into a place where the struggles and stress of life can not reach them. This is the exact thing that Willy did. He placed himself in the past memories he had. These were places in his life where the conflict was at a low and he was enjoying life. This may be considered a mental illness which is also why he thought of committing suicide.
In the play it is suspected that Willy is trying to commit suicide on more than one occasion. His wife discovers how he is trying and she takes the things he had
Professor Wright APELANG
25 April 2013
Death of a Salesman deals with a loss of identity and a man's inability to accept change within himself. The play is the memories, dreams, confrontations, and arguments, that make up the last 24 hours of Willy Loman's life. The three major themes within the play are denial, contradiction, and order versus disorder. While the article, “Causes of suicide not always straightforward”, discusses the factors that can cause a perfectly normal person to commit suicide. The main topics in this article are related to the play in various reasons including a mental illness, a thought of suicide, a feeling of guilt or shame, and a hectic reality.
Each member of the Loman family is living in denial. Willy is incapable of accepting the fact that he is a mediocre salesman. Instead Willy strives for his version of the “American dream”. Instead of acknowledging that he is not a well-known success, he chooses to relive past memories and events in which he is perceived as successful. This mental illness is what drove willy to the point of insanity. This state of mind is considered a mental illness because he can not control what is happening to his mind. In the minds of the public suicide is related to a mental illness. The reason being no one in their right mind would commit suicide. To that person they may be thinking this is the only solution. That is not a mental illness it is them finding the simplest solution to put themselves into a place where the struggles and stress of life can not reach them. This is the exact thing that Willy did. He placed himself in the past memories he had. These were places in his life where the conflict was at a low and he was enjoying life. This may be considered a mental illness which is also why he thought of committing suicide.
In the play it is suspected that Willy is trying to commit suicide on more than one occasion. His wife discovers how he is trying and she takes the things he had