... isn't as sharp as he used to be. Willy has a slight inferiority complex, and this is shown through the continuous flashbacks he has of his dead brother Ben who struck it rich in the jungle. Ben causes Willy to feel like more of a failure because he is struggling to make ends meet and provide for ... his family. Another example of Willy's inferiority is when his son Biff catches him with another woman. This haunts him because he sees it as part of the reason for why ... qualities, and many of these behaviors have an impact on his entire family. Willy is idealistic, stubborn, and he has ...

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... and will not be realized. Willy was a successful businessman in his earlier years, but never as successful as he thought he was. By the end of the play, most of his connections and friends that he had made through his business are retired or dead. This makes his job very unfulfilling and ... why he hasn't accumulated a fortune yet. He tries so hard to live up to his accomplishments that he talks about him all the time to his family. "When I was seventeen I walked into the jungle, and when I was twenty-one I walked out. And by God I was rich" (Miller 1333). This is Willy's dream and ... ...

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... , "Someday I'll have my own business, and I'll never have to leave home anymore." Ben strayed into Africa on his way to Alaska, "I walked into the jungle when I was seventeen- I walked out when I was twenty one and by god I was rich!" Ben is Willy's idea of success. He and Willy agree on ... fails maths at school, he travels to see Willy is Boston to ask him to persuade his teacher to pass him. He catches Willy in his hotel room with the woman. Biff loses faith in his father, and his dreams of passing math and going to college die after that day. Biff realizes that Willy is a dreamer ......

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... lawyer and becomes very successful. Willie runs into Bernard while at Charley's business and Bernard is on his way to settle a case in front of the Supreme Court. Willie did not believe that Bernard was a well liked person, so it comes to show that Willie's ideas about how to become ... his son's, which is really the reason Willy kills himself. Ben's fortune discovering diamonds symbolizes Willy's failure as a salesman. At the end of the play Ben talks Willy into entering the jungle to find his diamonds, which really means to kill himself so the family can collect the insurance money and...

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... Brothers (particularly Biff -- Willy's favourite) to achieve success and to keep up with Willy's high and unrealistic expectations disappoint Willy. As a result of all the failures in life, Willy sees suicide as the only honourable way out of the predicament he is in. Suicide will at least provide for Biff's success, or so Willy has deluded himself to believe. Willy should have developed ... down his life to secure his dream that makes Willy a tragic yet heroic figure and one to whom, in Linda's words, ``attention must be finally paid''. Ben's final mantra ""The jungle is dark, but full...

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... has to do is go into any city, pick up the phone and he's making his living. Miller uses Ben's reference to the "jungle" as the setting to show how Ben's ruthless success carries uneasy connotations of a place where only the fittest will survive and in which weaker members like Willy ... will be devoured by the capitalist system. The play's use of setting underlines the theme of a competitive society where ... to Biff and Happy. He has given his son's false morality and fails to set down clear moral standards. For example, Willy ignores the incident when Biff takes the football from sch...

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... , "Someday I'll have my own business, and I'll never have to leave home anymore." Ben strayed into Africa on his way to Alaska, "I walked into the jungle when I was seventeen- I walked out when I was twenty one and by god I was rich!" Ben is Willy's idea of success. He and Willy agree on ... fails maths at school, he travels to see Willy is Boston to ask him to persuade his teacher to pass him. He catches Willy in his hotel room with the woman. Biff loses faith in his father, and his dreams of passing math and going to college die after that day. Biff realizes that Willy is a dreamer ......

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... why Biff is unable to get a good job. Soon Willy begins thinking about when Biff was a senior in high school. He remembers how Biff was the star of the football team and how he was offered scholarships from several colleges. After Willy's daydream ends, Charley comes in to play cards with him. While they are ... an argument and Charley leaves. Willy then turns his attention to Ben and asks him how he became so successful. Ben tells Willy that he went into the jungle when he was seventeen and when he came out at twenty-one he was rich. After Biff overhears Willy talking to himself, he asks...

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... of success. These types of families can be seen as failures. (Kennedy 1410). Willy Loman is the first character to represent the search of the American Dream. First, Willy has a strong belief in the American Dream because of his brother Ben. "Why boys, when I was seventeen I walked into the jungle, and when I was twenty-one I walked out. And by God I was rich!" (Miller 1900). This quote ... said by Ben is the basis of Willy's beliefs for his family and himself. Willy thinks he will never need to search for anything and that things would just come to him ... incomes to get around their ...

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