Death of a Salesman daydream

It's a tear-jerking book, and playwright Arthur Miller writes a profound tragedy with a tense plot and dialogue. The tragedy of the people in the play seems to be written, they live with dreams, they live hard, but they hit the wall of fate head-on, the aging Willie commits suicide and cheats, and the story ends with a lonely funeral...

Willie and Beeve are the two most distinctive characters in the play, Willie envied the life of a salesman when he was young, resolutely joined the list of salesmen, and even gave up the opportunity to pan for gold, Willie worked hard for a lifetime, but in his old age he suffered the fate of being dismissed by the company, he felt powerless to maintain the family, and in desperation, he thought of the means of suicide and insurance fraud. He is a character who lives in daydreams, he envisions his son becoming a great character, he dreams that he can become a star salesman, can have friends all over the world, can have a grand funeral...

Beeve is Willie's eldest son, but also Willy's most beloved son, he is a football star, he loves his father deeply, but fate is not coincidental, when he failed in mathematics and longed to seek his father's help, he just bumped into his father's cheating, the father's great image collapsed in his heart, Biefe himself also lost confidence, he said goodbye to the court, fell in love with the pastoral life, like to make money with physical strength. Every time I came home, I would quarrel because my pursuit was the diametrically opposed to my father's vision of my daydreams.

Arthur Miller is reflecting on the American dream, on the American dream that drives everyone crazy, on the American dream that makes many people desperate because of daydreaming, and under the tide of the times, some people have become heroes, whether they are salesmen of the older generation or triumphant gold diggers; some people have become outcasts, struggling at the bottom of society, but still living in that blinding daydream.

There is nothing wrong with a person's daydreaming, but when the group is daydreaming, it will inevitably bring tragedy, those dreamers pull up their pockets to earn a fat face, those dreamers fight for their lives in order to meet a promising future, the lucky ones eat leftovers, and most of the blind followers hit the wall everywhere or continue to dream and do not want to wake up, or choose the tragic situation after waking up.

Man, the most difficult to recognize himself, Willie followed the American dream and became a salesman, he did not find gold, but he dreamed that his son could have great prospects, he did not want to wake up from daydreams, because he lived by daydreams. But the salesman is not willy's real love, as Beeve said, willie likes clay handicrafts, is pastoral life, but he is infected by madness in the American dream, and his real self is blindly obscured.

Is there an antidote to crowd frenzy? In the crowd frenzy, no one can be a self-awakener, perhaps "love" is the answer that Arthur Miller found, willie has lived in daydreams all his life, but he loves his family deeply, and when he is sure that Biff still loves him, he dies safely, so Willie's death is both the climax of the tragedy of this drama and the turning point of this tragedy, because Arthur Miller shows us the buttons that tragedy may be unraveled - love, the love of a family - even if they live in cold daydreams, a family can embrace and warm up on a blizzard night.