blog due on wednesday

Willy thinks that all people are capable of having an opportunity at success if they are confident and assertive. He shows this through his unfaltering confidence in his son, who after years of working out west has nothing for himself. He convinces him to go to an interview with an old friend, expecting him to receive a $15,000 loan to help start a business. This seems like an irrational idea to the common man, however Willy thinks that this is completely legitimate because he was a salesman. Arthur Miller shows a converse idea in his depiction of the life of a salesman. He shows that he does not believe individual opportunity comes to everyone equally by comparing Willy to the older man in the firm. The older man, was prosperous and capable, while Willy was fired for his inadequacies. Both had put in equal amounts of work into the company, however different circumstances allowed for him to be fired.