Emotions In Arthur Miller's Death Of A Salesman

The Death of a Salesman is a play created to evoke thoughts and emotions. The audience sees mental decline and personal demons manifesting themselves in various ways. Three characters stood out more than others. They made the audience feel many more emotions than all the others and cause the strongest reactions. Wily Loman is a salesman who is struggling with everything going on in his world. He loses both his job and his sanity. He is loud, abusive, and prideful amongst many other things. The opening scenes show his personality the best, The Death of a Salesman starts out by showing us just how much of his sanity Willy has lost. He is yelling and causing a huge scene. We see his hallucinations not long after. He’s sitting playing cards with Charley when he sees his brother, Ben, who
She is an enabler, complacent, and is honestly infuriating. The scene that shows her character the best is about forty to sixty minutes in. It gives us a good look into her personality where she allows Willy to continue down his destructive path with his suicide attempts and his frequent outbursts. She allows him to continue his abuse of her and both of the boys. She even blames the boys for causing him to be that way which we can see in the scene in the kitchen about fifty minutes into the movie. It seems as though she can never be appeased. She has no sympathy, appreciation, or love for either one of the boys. She makes it very clear to Happy that she does not appreciate his attempts to make the family proud. She tells him that the fifty dollars he sent for Christmas was not enough and that he should have sent more because the repair was ninety-six. She is one of the characters who gets on your nerves after seeing her repetitively condoning abuse and placing blame on everyone but Willy. This again is the show of a good actress because she can make us, as the audience, very angry which is why her character stood out the