In Arthur Miller's play "Death of a Salesman," Willy Lowman is an aging salesman who never tries to improve his present circumstances, but opts instead to flee from them, by recalling better times in the past when his life had fewer conflicts. Willy comes to realization that his life isn't exactly what he planed; He uses evasion as a drug and puts himself in a false state of happiness letting him escape his problems ... drug, evasion, is when his son Biff returns home from out west. While discussing with his wife Linda, his disappointment in Biff, Willy is unable to cope with the reality of h...

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