Willy Loman Mental Illness Essay

My client Willy Loman is a sixty two year old man who lives in Brooklyn, travel as a salesman. He is working in a Wagner company for the lowest position for thirty five years. He had never been successful in sales, because he is been depressed. He obtains limited wages every week, but that was not enough for him and family because his car, house and small refrigerator was old and wrecked. Willy asked his boss Howard to raise money, but he fires him instead. Willy Loman was sad and depressed because he can’t handle all these things. He had many problems in his life, his family, money and lost his job. Willy Loman has a dream of becoming like Dave Singleman, because he was a popular with his clients and do business by just making a phone call from his room. When Dave Singleman died, his customers came from all over the region for his funeral. Willy Loman thinks that his funeral will be same as Singleman’s. By this argument, it proves that Willy was depressed, sick and thinking about suicide. Willy Loman makes his sons lie to him,

Its a serious mental health illness with emotions and, feeling worthlessness. Willy feels like he is useless because he hasn’t been successful in business like his son Biff. This disease can also cause mental stressful and behavioral problem like Willy already has it. Willy is mentally stressful because he financially unstable which makes him worry about his family. In this kind of case, a person take advantage of others to get what he wants.“After all the highways, and the trains, and the appointments, and the years, you end up worth more dead than alive.”(Miller 43). Willy is becoming more worthlessness because he never got enough money to save. Willy was a failure in his work and he didn’t save anything for the past thirty five years. He was a subsistence worker. Willy later realized that he has a life insurance policy with a large premium that causes him to commit