Therefore, business and market are based on the idea of the culture of personality. This is his pet word that he uses time and again to reflect a culture where a person well-liked becomes an icon in business and industry.
Willy Loman constantly repeats lines and advises his sons that they must be well-liked. Theme #6ĭeveloping a fetish for a figure, or personality cult is another major theme of the play. Therefore, family and relationships is another theme of the play. Conversely, Willy Loman and his sons have been implicitly presented as a failed family. Charley and Bernard, their neighbors, have been placed by Miller in contrast to them to show a successful family. Biff does not know what to do in life, while Happy does not have any dream. Therefore, he depends on his sons to realize his dreams, but both fail. He knows that he has lost touch with the modern market. Willy Loman, while trying to materialize his American dream, loses his senses. The play, Death of a Salesman, is the tragedy of a family which could not accept the changing times. In fact, Bernard and Biff both have similar opportunities, but one decides to exploit it, while the other does not. In the same way, Happy has found an opportunity, but Biff lacks this acumen to see things. Willy Loman does not see this as an opportunity to improve himself professionally, while for Wagner it is an opportunity to find new hands. That is why he sacks him without feeling any empathy. Howard Wagner knows that Willy Loman is no match to modern marketing and business innovations. Theme #4Īlthough every person tries, material luck comes to those who exploit the opportunities. Interestingly, Linda does not fall victim to this modern thinking, or she does not become a tool to be exploited. Willy Loman’s affair with the attractive anonymous woman of Boston and his son’s womanizing attitude both point to gender relationships in the capitalistic society. With the modernity and materialism taking firm roots in the society, the female seems to replace the patriarchy and become the head of the family. Gender issues and relationships with the opposite gender is another major theme of the play.
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