It seems to be a characteristic of Death of a Salesman that many reasons can be named for its catastrophic ending – its discussion has been very controversial. As I am not the first to engage in this matter, I will be able to present the viewpoints of different critics, and to compare them. Instead, I will try to collect hints at who or what might be responsible for Willy Loman’s death. In this paper, I will not focus on a possible moral message of the play. For how one answers it decides what kind of message one distils from the play. What are the forces that pushed him towards this somber end? The fact that Arthur Miller pursues genuine moral education in his plays, which he has repeatedly admitted to (for example in “The Salesman Has a Birthday”) justifies this question. Willy Loman is a suicide.Īnd yet every viewer of the play will ask himself who or what killed this man. He wrecks his car and kills himself to leave his family 20,000 dollars insurance money. When Willy Loman is heard racing off with his car at the end of Arthur Millers play Death of a Salesman, nobody doubts why he is doing so.
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