I can park my car in any street in New England, and the cops protect it like their own.
And when I bring you fellas up, there’ll be open sesame for all of us, ‘cause one thing, boys: I have friends. “ And they know me, boys, they know me up and down New England. In his memories, for example, he once says to his boys: He further claims that he was quite successful at the beginning of his career, but if it’s true, we don’t get to know. Nowadays Willy has problems to earn his living and he constantly borrows money from his neighbor Charley, pretending to his wife that it is his salary. Meanwhile his firm for which he has worked for about thirty-four years has taken away his salary and he has to work on straight commission in New England like a beginner. Willy is salesman by profession and in his younger years he bought a small house in Boston with a large garden for his family.
He is married with Linda, a housewife and has two grown boys named Biff and Happy. Willy Loman who represents the main character of the play is sixty-three years old. On the other hand it treats the influence that these illusions exert on his two boys and their wrong upbringing. The paper deals on the one hand with the main character of the play himself, his dreams, illusions and wrong values that finally lead to his failure and suicide. He brings up his two boys in these illusions and is assured of having chosen the right way. But in reality Willy can be considered as a looser and a poor guy who only claims himself to be at the top. He never has any doubt about achieving his aim as he is of the opinion to have all traits of character and competences he needs. Willy is convinced that he will make it if he tries his luck in the business and starts his career in a selling firm.
In his youth he believes that he has found the secret to success. Willy Loman, the main character of the play Death of a Salesman, is a salesman past sixty years of age. Although skills and knowledge can be trained, and abilities and competences can be improved by means of special learning methods, somebody who wants to be at the top must already have a certain biological and genetic qualification. Nevertheless we can still talk about a kind of natural selection. It’s more or less the right combination of certain abilities, ambitions and values that make up the secret of success. Nowadays it is not the physique alone that decides if somebody gets above the others or not. In exactly the same way we can consider the history of mankind as a surviving of the fittest. The species that had adapted best obtained the greatest chance to prevail in this “combat”. Since the existence of life on earth there has been the struggle between the stronger and the weaker of all creatures.
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