Death Of A Salesman Failure From Unrealistic Desire
Failure From Unrealistic Desire
In Death of a Salesman, an unrealistic desire for success and materialistic goods only has a negative impact in attitude. Willy buys new modern devices in order to find happiness through luxury, but these new objects only incite anger from Willy because of payments he has to make. Willy has a false idea of how to become successful through charisma, and he is crestfallen to see that Biff is unable to live out Willy's successful ideal. Even Biff and Happy, Willy's sons, struggle to try to achieve the impossible expectations of Willy. In the end, all these unrealistic desires have a toll on his mental health, and he drives himself to suicide, expecting Biff to become something big with the money from his life insurance.
In Death of a Salesman, we blatantly see that Willy wants to enjoy having the luxury of new, modern objects like his new car and refrigerator, but he gets angry that he constantly needs to pay for it.
"Whoever heard of a Hastings refrigerator? Once in my life I would like to own something outright before it’s broken! I’m always in a race with the junkyard! I just finished paying for the car and it’s on its last legs. The refrigerator consumes belts like a goddam maniac. They time those things. They time them so when you finally paid for them, they’re used up." (Miller 50)
Willy buys these appliances with the false hope of expecting comfort from having these expensive appliances. For Willy, it is just a satisfaction of owning the machine, thinking he can afford it. However, he has to make constant payments for them and this angers him throughout the play.
Another unrealistic desire is Willy's dream of success is through likeability, when in reality success is rewarded by hard work. Willy does not want to accept that as fact, therefore he becomes more upset when he sees Biff is doing worse than Bernard. "I’m — I’m overjoyed to see how you made the grade, Bernard, overjoyed... How —how did you? Why didn’t he ever
In Death of a Salesman, an unrealistic desire for success and materialistic goods only has a negative impact in attitude. Willy buys new modern devices in order to find happiness through luxury, but these new objects only incite anger from Willy because of payments he has to make. Willy has a false idea of how to become successful through charisma, and he is crestfallen to see that Biff is unable to live out Willy's successful ideal. Even Biff and Happy, Willy's sons, struggle to try to achieve the impossible expectations of Willy. In the end, all these unrealistic desires have a toll on his mental health, and he drives himself to suicide, expecting Biff to become something big with the money from his life insurance.
In Death of a Salesman, we blatantly see that Willy wants to enjoy having the luxury of new, modern objects like his new car and refrigerator, but he gets angry that he constantly needs to pay for it.
"Whoever heard of a Hastings refrigerator? Once in my life I would like to own something outright before it’s broken! I’m always in a race with the junkyard! I just finished paying for the car and it’s on its last legs. The refrigerator consumes belts like a goddam maniac. They time those things. They time them so when you finally paid for them, they’re used up." (Miller 50)
Willy buys these appliances with the false hope of expecting comfort from having these expensive appliances. For Willy, it is just a satisfaction of owning the machine, thinking he can afford it. However, he has to make constant payments for them and this angers him throughout the play.
Another unrealistic desire is Willy's dream of success is through likeability, when in reality success is rewarded by hard work. Willy does not want to accept that as fact, therefore he becomes more upset when he sees Biff is doing worse than Bernard. "I’m — I’m overjoyed to see how you made the grade, Bernard, overjoyed... How —how did you? Why didn’t he ever