The diamonds represent pure, material achievement something Willy strives for and we know that Ben asked Willy a great amount of times to go to Alaska with him and become rich but he is so obsessed with the American Dream that he sees that as failure and would rather still to is under achievable job.Ĭritics say that Willy’s need for Ben and his repetition of diamonds sometimes conflict with his need for Linda because Linda symbolizes something stable and certain, while Ben represents something unrealistic. However Ben also symbolises false sense of conduct as Ben’s personality traits and leading words take Willy away from the realistic financial circumstances he is in.īen also talks much about the diamonds that made in rich from the jungle, they seem to represent the idea of concrete wealth in Death of a salesman and Willy’s unsuccessfulness in selling. In Willy’s mobile concurrency’s we are introduced to Willy’s dead brother Ben, Ben is Willy’s hero in that Ben is his ideal of economic and personal success it seems Ben is symbolised as everything Willy wanted to be. Additionally the Lomans family don’t seem to be in a rewarding finance position too as Willy isn’t making the money he’d hoped for so him buying the stockings for his mistress and not for Linda who actually needed them is also a symbol of how Willy will put his ego-stroking affair over his loved ones and how the mistress and the new stockings fulfilled him with pride. symbolising his own betrayal and guilty realisations of how he isn’t providing for his humble wife, the only one that does truly care for him and love him. Every time we see Linda mending her old stockings he also seems to get sensitive and precarious telling her “I won’t see stockings in my house. Another significant symbol Miller uses is the use of the stockings Willy gives the stockings that are meant for Linda to his mistress, becoming a symbol of Willy’s sexual infidelity.
This is what makes Death of a Salesman such an outstanding play, the realisation of reality for Willy and his dreams and desires shown in the mobile concurrencies.
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