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Analysis of the Ending of "Death of a Salesman"

The play "Death of a Salesman" shows the final demise of Willy Loman, a sixty-
year-old salesman in the America of the 1940's, who has deluded himself all his
life about being a big success in the business world. It also portrays his wife
Linda, who "plays along" nicely with his lies and tells him what he wants to
hear, out of compassion. The book describes the last day of his life, but there
are frequent "flashbacks" in which Willy relives key events of the past, often
confusing them with what is happening in the present. His two sons, Biff and
Happy, who are in their 30's, have become failures like himself. Both of them
have gone from idolizing their father in their youth to despising him in the
present.

On the last few pages of the play, Willy finally decides to take his own life
([1] and [2]). Not only out of desperation because he just lost his job, with
which he was hardly earning enough to pay ordinary expenses at the end. He......

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