Willy Loman is the lead character in this play and he is also a husband, a father, and a salesman. The thing that seems to bother Willy the most throughout this play is money. His life seems to revolve around money. Items in his house are constantly breaking down and the bills are piling up around him. In the beginning of the play we find out that he isn’t making any money off commission and he has to keep borrowing money. Why isn’t he making any sales? Why has he hidden the fact that he borrows money from his family …show more content…
The play shows us that life without happiness is a hard thing to do. It’s shows us that we need to be honest and open with the people we love because even if we think that our problems are our own, more likely than not, our problems spill into other people’s life. It’s not okay to be taken advantage of and it’s not okay to be pushed aside when you have given everything you have to other people or to a career. This play also shows us what it’s like to live when you aren’t really living at all. Being unhappy or being stuck in a career that you hate to please other people isn’t what life is about. Life is about happiness and if the American dream is to be happy, then this play proves that being who you are is the only way to live that