Sunday, March 8, 2009
Death of a Salesman 7
Willy’s final actions in the novel were certainly not notable. Committing suicide is a sign of weakness. By killing himself, he thought he would please his family by granting them with $20,000 through his life insurance. He did not consider how much it would hurt his family. The only notable thing about Willy’s suicide is the fact that he pursued it because he thought he would be helping his family; however, it did not. Biff wants to go do his own thing and will not even be around the family much more. When Biff confronted Willy to tell him that he was leaving, Biff started crying. By crying, Willy assumed that Biff loved him. Willy then made further assumptions that by killing himself, Biff would step up to the plate and take care of the family; however, this is not the case. Committing suicide shows how weak Willy was. Overall, Willy’s reasons for killing himself proved to be inaccurate.
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2 comments:
Good blog Abbey!
I agree with you completely when you say that committing suicide shows a sign of weakness. Willy thought that doing this would help out his family and especially Biff, but in fact it did not help out the family at all. I also agree with you when you said that Willy's reasons for killing himself proved to be inaccurate. Good job, Ab!
Abbeyyy!!
I'm sitting next to you now :)
But I said the same thing! I thought that his last actions showed a sign of weakness just like his actions throughout the whole book did. He walked around like a confident man, but really if you said one thing, his true weakness would shine through. he was really a sad man :(
But good post!
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