Death Of A Salesman Failure

Success is What You Say it is[a]
Sometimes in life, admitting to one’s own faults or false theories can be a beneficial turn around. If an engineer never sits down to look at the faults in their prototype and redesign it based on its weaknesses, then they will never make anything out of it. In Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller a hard working businessman lives a stressful life chasing after the irrational quest to die the death of a salesman. Abandoned at a young age, Willy Loman was not born into an ideal situation, and with his lack of guidance he formulated his own, immature morals which he would center his entire life around. Willy finds what he thinks is his salvation and path to success through the Singleman Story, where
After Willy gets fired from his job, he realizes that he can no longer support his family, and his relentless drive to be a success results in his own suicide for insurance money. The earliest years of one’s life are often times the most important, and with childhood abandonment, Willy was already at a loss in life.
At the age of four, Willy’s brother selfishly left him at alone while he went to Alaska, leaving him traumatized and alone. Willy knows deep down that there was no way that he could have gone to Alaska with his brother Ben, but he makes himself truly believe that it was his own fault for not going. He gets frustrated at himself because in his mind, it was a missed opportunity that he could have took to turn out a success like Ben, when in reality there was never a choice. “That man was a genius, that man was succes incarnate! What a mistake!
The reality of Biff is that he is a thief and a bum, but because this didn’t equate according to the cycle, Willy rejects that reality. Willy would not let go of his dream, and he wanted his sons to aid him in rebuilding the fantasies that deny him his own reality of being a defeated man.
“Let’s hold on to the facts tonight, Pop. We’re not going to get anywhere bullin’ around. I was a shipping clerk” Willy’s response: “I was fired, and I’m looking for a little good news to tell your mother... So don’t give me a lecture about facts and aspects. I am not interested. Now what have you got to say to me?” The firing of Willy is so detrimental that Willy is not able to mentally accept the fact the he is what he would describe to be as a failure. With the doors closed on Willy’s opportunity to be the number one man, the only other way out he has to live up to his dreams is through Biff to become what he wasn’t. Unfortunately, because of Willy’s lack of discipline of Biff during his childhood, Biff did not have the characteristics or potential to do so. Going back to Biff’s high school days, Willy’s wrong teachings finally caught up to Biff when he flunked out of high school, ruining his chances of going to college and living up to Willy’s hype. As Bernard, a huge success, explains to Willy, Biff had the opportunity to make something