Death In Willy Loman's Death

Death is a very vague character he is blunt and goes straight to the point. Death starts off with a sort of mocking or cynical manner, with a dark sense of humor, but as the novel goes on and World War II gets bigger and faster, Death shows weariness and remorse about having to collect so many souls. He’s extremely truthful and tells you how it is. A small fact he shares at the very beginning of the book is “you are going to die”. He explains that he is attempting to be cheerful about this whole topic, but most people find themselves hindered in believing him. He explains he can definitely be cheerful, amiable, agreeable, affable. Although he can be all these things he can't be nice, that's just not him.
He sees things in colors, but food colors, such as lettuce, grapes, chocolate. Death enjoys noticing colors,
As World War II continues and he must collect so many souls, he grows weary with his work. He likes the sky chocolate, dark dark chocolate when he takes his souls. He enjoys every color he sees, billions of flavors none the same. He says it takes the edge off of the stress. Death is tired of his job and wants a vacation basically , but can’t really take one because there isn't anyone to take his spot. Death talks about his job, removing souls and carrying them away which is weird seeing that he is death personified. Later on in the book it basically states that death has feeling also “he has a heart”. There has been 3 times that death has seen the book thief. The first time he saw her was on a train where he had come to collect