The Death Of A Salesman really reminded me of today's economy crisis, and the fact that there are so many Willy Loman's in America today. Many people have been laid off, or are close to losing their job's simply based on the fact that other's don't have money to stimulate the economy by buying things. Willy was in lots of financial issues, and his job wasn't helping him at all. I thought that it was kind of shocking, though, the lengths he went to in order to get his family money. It was kind of scary, because i know that people actually do kill themselves so that their families can live off of their life insurance. That part really was freaky. The parts that i found confusing were when Willy kept having the flashbacks: that was hard to understand, because his reality blurred into his fantasies so smoothly and it made things more difficult to decipher.
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I would add that it seems from your response as though that blurring between reality and fantasy was well executed by Miller, if he intended for the two to be indistinguishable at times. From my point of view, I think this was an intended effect. I see him trying to communicate Willy's mental condition through the action of the play, not only through dialogue and plot.
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