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Death Of A Salesman

 

            Willy Lomans Wrong Dream Interpretation in Death of a Salesman .
             Willy Loman the character in Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller is an example of self-destruction, and how a wrong dream can corrupt one person's mind. Willy Loman had the wrong dream, because he would refuse to except any change that was happening around him, the values that he worshiped in life applied rarely to his own, and the failure he suffered in the business world would destroy him in the end.
             Change was always hard for Willy to except especially about the things that he held most dear. His life long experience thought him much, but as the world changed around him, he refused to change with it.
             Willy Loman had no use for change by pointing out the tiniest difference; "I don't want a change. I want Swiss Cheese. Why am I always being contradicted?" .
             What Willy never realized is that the people around him were changing, some for the better and some for the worse, but all of them different from what Willy expected them to be.
             Change was a part of life, which Willy didn't want to admit. How he lived before made him feel secure, but the more everything changed around him the more insecure he became. Any difference in Willy's life was new and frightening, and only by denying this change to happen Willy was able to live in the past, therefore he never moved on to better things.
             Willy himself stated that he is still living in the past and that he is not happy with the decisions he made when he says, "Why didn't I go to Alaska with my brother Ben that time? That man was a genius incarnate! What a mistake! He begged me to go.".
             He always knew he made a mistake, but realized that, that mistake would stay with him for the rest of his life. His dream was to be somebody, but it was automatically the wrong dream because he didn't keep up with the modern world changes.
             The things Willy could relate to were meaningful in his life, and the more Willy held on to his values the more he fantasized of what he wanted instead of what was.


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