Drama-Death

During the course of the story I thought maybe the title is just really a metaphor for the death of Willy's psyche. It think it was literal as well as metaphorically. Willy did die in the mind. He became so incapable of normalcy because of his lack of knowledge of what was present and what was not. His flashbacks ruled his mind and showed the readers what he used to be. He was the big man on campus but only for a short time in business as well as with his sons who adored him. Everyone knows that something is going to happen to Willy because of the title but what makes the play dramatic is the way in which we see Willy deteriorate. We watch as little snippets of information of his past resurface explaining why Biff hates him so much. These little informational flashbacks provide clarity on what makes Willy, Willy. We then understand why he is going insane. He hates that is amounted to nothing...in his opinion. In his wife, Linda's opinion, Willy is a god. But the real dramatic flair of the story are the ways in which secrets are revealed about things that was almost talked about in code in the dialogue between the characters when in the present.