Death Of A Salesman Written by Arthur Miller is about a dysfunctional family with the head of the house, Willy Loman, is the father,and being the source of the problems. Willy Loman spent
             most of his childhood without a father. His father
             abandoned the family when Willy was three. Therefore,Willy really never had a role model on how to be a husband or a parent.Willy, his wife Linda, their two sons, Biff, and Happy, or Hap for short, lived in Brooklyn, NY where Willy had been a salesman for 34 years. He spent most of those years traveling to different cities selling for his company. The play takes place at a time in Willy's life where he starts having trouble distiguishing present reality with past events.
             During the raising of his two sons he made it a habit of sending them mixed messages. In one statement he would congradulate Biff for stealing a football from the locker room, and the next he would tell him how wrong stealing was.Willy was embarrassed that he was stuck in Brooklyn with a low paying job. He would make up lies about himself to cover up this fact. He blows
             himself up to his friends and his family pretending to be a bigshot in the sales business. He would often tell his sons, "when they say Willy Loman, people listen." Willy's reality versus illusion problem eventially bring about Willy's downfall. He starts seeing Ben, his older
             brother, who left when Willy was a young child. Ben went in search of his father and ended up in Africa, to become rich in gold mining. Ben actually stumbles across the mines but Willy has the illusion that Ben worked hard for to get where he was. Willy spends alot of time
             trying to accomplish what Ben had accomplished but had been unable to, and that also contributes to his downfall. Neither of Willy's sons were very
             successfull despite all Willy's efforts, and he could not understand why. He could not concieve of the idea that neither of them want to follow in their fathers ...