Eulogy for Willy Loman I wish the last words I spoke to my father were different and, I wish the last things I did to change my father were different. Now that he is left us, I feel glued by the words we last shared, and the emotions that we last destroyed. I now feel a constant ball of anger, disgrace, and disappointment in the pit of my stomach, bubbling up my throat every time I try to speak. The decision Willy made to end his life, no one can comprehend. An unachievable dream, and a never-ending self-succeeding heart infatuated Willy.
The misconception that is Willy Loman’s life makes it so that the Loman family exist in a state of constant friction, the culmination of which constantly resides with Willy and his eldest son Biff. Willy Loman lives his life in a dream, believing himself to have the ideal American Dream existence. Even though his passions lie in working with his hands, he pushes on. He constantly dreams about going with his brother to a new frontier where he and his family can live simply, but he never admits to himself that his dream lies outside of his chosen path. He works long hours at a job he’s not good at and doesn’t truly enjoy, and he expects this kind of life for his sons.
Khoa Tran 11/1/2010 Eng1102 Mr. McNamara Sonny Blue In this world that we live in there are lots of different characters throughout everybody. No one will be the same as the other even if they are grows up together or a long time best friend. In the story Sonny Blue by James Baldwin is a perfect example for two brothers that grow up together and into two completely different lives as they grow up into their own character. The author names the story Sonny Blue as he wants to point out the brother of his and the sad mood with unhappy thoughts of the author thinks about his brother life. The author writes this story about the two brothers that grow up together into two different ways of other.
He expresses great anger with his son. At first, he is in denial but then comes to the realization that this situation was sadly true. Willy in many parts of the play is angry with himself because he views himself as a failure. His life, as we see it, is filled with unfulfilled dreams and self-deceptions. He tends to live too much in his past and let his failures creep up on him and make a mess of him.
“A searing condemnation of the American Dream” How well does this phrase express the concerns in Miller’s play. It can be said that the American dream and its failure is certainly one of the central themes of Arthur Miller’s ‘Death of a Salesman’. Miller tells us the story of an ageing travelling salesman, Willy Loman, who’s success is rapidly dwindling, who’s sons fail to live up to his expectations and who is increasingly haunted by memories and imaginary conversations with people from his past. A significant portion of the play takes place as flashbacks that give us insight into the problematic relationship between Willy and his family and the origins of his failure as he strives to achieve success. Willy has a dream that he refuses to give up even when it becomes clear that his dream is shallow, unrealistic and unattainable.
And by god I was rich.’ Whenever Ben says that Willy gets motivated to work harder and he interprets Ben's good fortune as undeniable proof that his dreams of making it big are realistic. Ben is the fuel to Willy’s ultimate dream of success. Whenever Ben was around he would constantly remind Willy of how important he is, he may not do it on purpose but he has the tendency to remind Willy how wealth and success runs in the family, ‘’Great inventor, father. With one gadget he made more in a week than a man like you could make in a lifetime’’ And that just makes Willy feel as if he will never be good enough and as important as his brother or father, which demotivates him. Willy sees Ben frequently after he died.
Unfortunately, Doodle was no match for his brother’s aggressive and selfish actions. In the end, Brother’s pride is to blame for Doodle’s untimely death. Brother’s pride was responsible for his opinion of Doodle. At times, Brother was kind and loving to Doodle, but the reader soon realizes that the narrator was mostly harsh and cruel to his brother. In the beginning of the story, Brother recounts the day Doodle was born, saying that he was a disappointment as soon as he entered the world.
Willy’s blind faith in his stunted version of the American Dream leads to his rapid psychological decline when he is unable to accept the disparity between the Dream and his own life. Abandonment Willy’s life charts a course from one abandonment to the next, leaving him in greater despair each time. Willy’s father leaves him and Ben when Willy is very young, leaving Willy neither a tangible (money) nor an intangible (history) legacy. Ben eventually departs for Alaska, leaving Willy to lose himself in a warped vision of the American Dream. Likely a result of these early experiences, Willy develops a fear of abandonment, which makes him want his family to conform to the American Dream.
Okonkwo was scared of people thinking he was just like his father so he worked hard since he was a child. This made him hate everything his father was made of, which is weakness and being lazy. ”Even as a little boy he had resented his father’s failure and weakness”. (13). when Okonkwo father died he had been in a lot of debt, Okonkwo became obsessed with the idea of manliness in order to get over his father weakness.
During this play, one of the main forms of this void is that of an idealised American Dream, which is simply not universally attainable. The manner in which Willy does not recognise this and subsequently attempts to pass on to his children the superficial values of “personal attractiveness”, is constantly reminding us of his delusions of grandeur from the reality we find him in. Biff however recognises the falsity of his father’s words, and we see their juxtaposing perspectives on values and reality clash on numerous occasions. Early on, Willy claims: “...because it’s not what you do. It’s who you know and the smile on your face!