Work___Leisure

Work / Leisure In Arthur Miller's play Death of a Salesman, the main character; Willy Lowman is a semi-successful salesman who is forced into retirement before he is ready. Willy believes whole-heartedly in the American Dream of easy success and wealth, but he never achieves it. After Willy's salary is cut, and his territories limited, he is forced to face the realization that his days of a salesman are over. With the loss of his identifier as a salesman, Willy is unable to cope. Willy's anxiety throws him into a life torn between illusion and reality. After convincing himself that his family would be better off financially without him, Willy takes his own life. The fictional character Willy Lowman has been studied, analyzed, an interpreted. Arthur Miller struck a cord with his character in which he capture's an essence of the workingman's perils. Why is it so easy for society to relate to Willy Lowman' In the play Willy comments, "You can't eat the orange and throw the peel away. A man is not a man is not a piece of fruit" (Miller 82). What Willy has lost at trying to live life, meaning, work, willy, retirement, leisure, time, one, society, martin, something, retired, frankl, age, young, therapy, terkel, salesman, relaxation, play, man, loss, longer, job, inner, effort, doing, character, career, being, before, been, after, about, ability