What I got out of it, other than depression for several years, is that you cant worry about making a living and being successful. You have to do what you love, even if you don't make alot of money doing it.
Am I correct here?
Not only that, but you can't let your work consume you and keep you away from your family, and you can't let it come to a point that you have no idea what's going on with your family, and instead of spending time with them, you're spending it in cheap affairs just for attention with another human being who isn't a customer or workplace associate.
shareYou have to do what you love, even if you don't make alot of money doing it.
Am I correct here?
The meaning of the story is there's more than life than working and doing your best to improve your social status. The only thing Willy Loman enjoyed in life was other people thinking he was successful, nothing else mattered. And he ended up destroying his family relationship, his friends, and losing his life due to his delusions.
shareTo me, the meaning of this story was that we all have fantasies of how our lives are actually like but sometimes we fool ourselves into thinking they are true and it always ends up hurting us in the long term.
Willy thought the most important thing is life was to be well liked
Linda that she had a great and caring husband
Happy I saw more as a character who just never grew up
Biff is a character who found out the wrong way when he caught his father cheating on his mother in the hotel. But he sort of believed the same way as his father that the only important thing in life was to be well liked and you will go far in life.
I think that's part of it, it's one of the messages of the story anyway. The Loman men seem to be men who are good with their hands. Willy's father carved flutes, Willy himself seems to be good at home repairs, and Biff mentions that he's happiest working on farms and ranches. The problem with Willy is that he has a warped idea about what success is. It's not good enough to have a job you enjoy and make a living at it, you have to impressive to other people, or "well-liked."
Actually, my take on the story is that parents shouldn't pin their own aspirations on their children. It seems that when Willy started to fail as a salesman, he began to expect Biff to make up for his own career failures by making a success of himself as a businessman. And the expectations grew so monstrous that when Biff decided that that wasn't who he was, Willy felt spited.
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Exactly, if anything ruined the lives of these people it was unrealistic expectations.
"Reach for the stars, you will only end up face-down in the mud."
When I'm gone I would like something to be named after me. A psychiatric disorder, for example.
The moral is that the universe is nihilistic and amoral.
Please excuse any typos, this was typed on an iPad
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