Arthur Millers Death of a Salesman as Social Commentary :: Death of a Salesman

Arthur Millers ending of a Salesman as Social CommentaryArthur Millers Death of a Salesman portrays the Lomans and all the family conflicts they faced. Its also apparent on a bigger scale that this bit is a friendly commentary. It touches all the problems brought on by wealth and success in our culture. Death of a Salesman is more effective as a reflection of fraternity and the problems it faces than as a depiction of family conflicts. The play showed how Willy Lomans longing to be booming controlled his life and ruined his family. Willy also represents a large piece of smart set. He portrays the people in our culture that base their lives on acquiring money. esurience for success has eaten up large numbers of people in this country. Its homely in the way Willy acts that his want of money consumes him. This constantly happens in our society people will do anything to crawl up the ladder of success, a great deal knocking down anyone in their way. Death of a Salesman also ref lected how families pass over people once they are quondam(a). Willy raised punch and Happy when they were in all dependent on him, but the boys arent willing to help Willy out when he needs them. This is more effective when looked at as if Willy represents all the older people in our society. It shows how the elderly are looked down upon, are vox populi to be crazy, and have their jobs taken away for no reason different than age. At times you feel sorry for Willy because these things are happening to him and he is powerless against them. This makes the reader stop to examine our own culture and the shipway we discriminate against people who should be our equals and treated with respect. This play also represents how Willys actions touched his entire family. He incessantly pushed the boys to have to be the greatest at everything they did. This made the children grow up to always feel like they could neer do enough to please their father. They ended up doing things against w hat they truly wanted. Biff never found a sufficient occupation and was forced to do things like steal. Happy ended up lying to make things always seem better than they were. But its how this represents society that makes it so effective. The biggest issue this play imitates is peer pressure. Willys pressure