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

Arthur Millers Death 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 play is a social commentary. It touches all the problems brought on by wealth and mastery in our culture. Death of a Salesman is more in force(p) as a reflection of society and the problems it faces than as a depiction of family conflicts. The play showed how Willy Lomans longing to be successful controlled his life and ruined his family. Willy also represents a large piece of society. He portrays the good deal in our culture that base their lives on acquiring money. voracity for success has eaten up large numbers of people in this country. Its evident 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, often knocking d consume anyone in their way. Death of a Salesman also reflected how families treat people formerly they are older. Willy raised laggard and Happy when they were completely 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 thought to be crazy, and have their jobs taken aside for no reason other 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 ways we discriminate against people who should be our equals and treated with respect. This play also represents how Willys actions affected his entire family. He always 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 never do enough to please their father. They ended up doing things against what they truly wanted. B iff never found a sufficient occupation and was forced to do things like steal. Happy ended up lying to make things always await 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