Death Of A Salesman by Arthur Miller
The author of the Death Of A Salesman, Arthur Miller, produces a lot
of flashbacks throughout the book involving the main character Willy
Loman. I am going to talk about two of the flashbacks that he writes
about in the book. These are when Willy talks to 'the woman', and the
other one is when Willy talks to Uncle Ben. Both of these flashbacks
occur in Act One of the book.
The first flashback that I have picked is when Willy talks to 'the
woman'. This is the first appearance of the woman in the book. The
scene is very short and only has two characters - Willy and The Woman.
Although I have classified it as a flashback, it is not really clear
whether it is a flashback or just Willy's thoughts at this stage in
the book. But as the book draws to an end, it becomes much clearer
that the scene is a flashback from Willy's past. Before the flashback
begins, Willy is talking to his wife Linda. But as the conversation
proceeds, Miller converts the scene into a flashback with only Willy
and The Woman. When the flashback starts, both Linda and The Woman's
laughter blend in together to produce a visual and dramatic effect as
the audience is cast away toward the flashback. In the theatre, the
producer could brighten the area or produce smoke to show the audience
that there is a flashback that is starting to occur.
I think that Miller put this scene into this specific place in the
book because of a very important reason and it was done purposely.
This reason is to portray that the relationship between Willy and his
wife Linda is not so good at the moment because they continue having
arguments both before and after this scene about very small issues,
such as when Willy shouts at Linda for mending her stockings. So this
may suggest that the flashback that Willy had with The Woman was that
he might have been having an affair with her in the past due to the
He is going through custody disputes about his two boys and he has "a steady girl".
Smith). He only says that he knew her and was hesitant to go on and
support is a pathetic effort to protect his identity. Linda will never admit to herself,
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sister he said he was moving on with his life less than a month after the incident had taken
to her as much as he wants but she is not letting him back into her life. When Thomas
is very eager for one of her daughters to marry him, as he is single,
told him that it was all scheme. She and the doctor were having an affair. He
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character in the novel “Death Of A Salesman’ and Mr.Loman was the type of person that would always focus on the simple things. Instead of looking for new opportunities and for a better change everything went downhill for Mr.Loman. For that reason, Arthur Miller utilizes the title “Death Of A Salesman” not just to predict Willy Loman’s death and failure, but also how Mr.Loman’s dreams died alongside with him. Showing that one little mistake can make a big change in your life.