Willy Loman, a victimizer and a victim

p Willy Loman , a victimizer and a victim

2006 Willy Loman is Miller 's most completely realized character . The protagonist of this character was Miller 's uncle that 's why Miller managed to create so alive and realistic figure . In his introduction Miller insists that the play is a growth from a random collection of images , all centering around the salesman figure , all expressing in some sense the futility of Willy 's life . Willy is presented in the play as a victim , victim of numerous factors and people , himself including . Apart from

that , he is also a person who makes people surrounding him become victims . The sense of the victim is very deep in the play

Death of a Salesman covers the last twenty-four hours of Willy Loman 's life . We learn of past events leading up to the moment of his death by seeing Willy 's memories acted out . Miller carefully blends a realistic picture of a salesman 's home and life in the post-depression years with the subjective thoughts that are going through its central protagonist 's head

The reasons for development of such tragic character stem from social changes that happened in post-depression America . The society turned into a false system and every one living in it is vulnerable to becoming social victim . American dream , desire to enrich quickly and safely distorts human mind , it makes all thoughts flaw in one direction - how to become rich , to match with a succeeding brother or neighbor . In Death of a Salesman the victim , Willy Loman , is not the nonconformist , the heroic but defeated liberator he is , rather , the conformist , the type of the society itself . Willy Loman is a man who from selling things has passed to selling himself , and has become , in effect , a commodity which like other commodities will at a certain point be discarded . What Willy says of the refrigerator is true of himself : 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 1951 ,

. 678 ) On the day that Linda makes the last payment on the house , she also buries Willy . He too has been a victim of planned obsolescence when he has no more cash value , his humanity is discarded . As Willy says to Howard , he has been used like an orange the fruit has been eaten and the peel - Willy himself - is thrown away

He brings tragedy down on himself , not by opposing the lie , but by living it . He lives his life half in a dream half in reality . The intrusion of Willy 's past and fantasy into his present resembles a dream , and the word "dream " recurs , from the early scenes "An air of the dream...