pg 83-90

Willy is a character all the way through the play is a man who doesn't seem to have a grip on reality but at some points it's almost as if he knows reality but fantasy is something he'd so much rather hold on to. "past or any crap, the woods are burning boys big blaze going on." The woods are a representation of the place his brother called him to go, into business making money but because of his lies he had to refuse. I see alaska as a life for willy but in a fantasy, because when he's fired in reality this fantasy also seems to go up in flames. The fact that the woods was a place for money and business but it's on fire could be a metaphor that all money and bussiness has gone up in flames for willy and he needs his sons to be his drug, he wants "no crap" which is the facts suggesting that he needs some fantasy and hope from his boys to keep him going. This all links with the struggle of sanity trait from shakespeare that makes a tragic hero as willy's mind isn't stable or sound but very uneasy. The bigger point to be made her could be about the American dream that if you work your way up in the business world you can succeed. This seems to be a prolem because it's what all people then aspire to be like no matter what their strengths are. Just like when charley offers willy a job but he can't accept because of human pride and this is the big problem and possibly downfall.