"I never have to wait in line to see a buyer. 'Willy Loman is here!' That's all they have to know, and I go right through." Act 1, Page 1561
Be warned, Mr. Costello. This is a hate blog, my personal reflection, on Willy.
Willy Loman. The man with no plan. The man who wastes his entire life and ruins the lives of his sons, all to prove in the end that he is worth more dead than alive. He is immature, selfish, rude, mean, and inconsiderate. We see Willy's true character first in his treatment of his wife. He cheats on her, despite her being entirely in love and dedicated to him. He tells her to shut up when she speaks. Next, to his sons. He tears them down and seconds later builds them up. He makes their inferiority complexes by always telling them if they are not the best, they are nothing. He was a terrible father to them. Personally, he does not get much better. He is too prideful to take the job Charley offers him, though he is not too prideful to take his money. He is just a fake, a phony, just as Biff called it all those years ago.
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