1. Who is "Dave Singleman"? What is the significance of his name? What is Willy's attidue toward him? What does he find admirable in him? What is the attraction which surrounds the figure of Singleman and his salesman profession? Is Willy's motivation for going into salesmanship related to a way of dying rather than a way of living?
-Dave Singleman is the mythical figure who has succeeded in business of salesmanship. This is another figure that succeeded in American Dream, which Willy longs to obtain. In fact, Willy extols him by saying “when he died-and by the way he died the death of a salesman, in his green velvet slippers in the smoker of the New York- when he died, hundreds of salesmen and buyers were at his funeral.” In other words, it seems that Willy dreams about this “Dave Singleman” and compare to himself. Hence, his illusion of a legendary salesman contributes to his deluded understanding of the world. Willy finds Dave Singleman admirable that he is well respected and imposing this title of “success” in his life. As salesman by its name explains what the job is all about, it is a job that is unlikely to leave mounts of profit to one’s business. However, without looking its downsides, Willy has mere dream called the “American Dream.” He thinks that the dream can be reached by anyone at anytime if one has constant mind towards it. However, like what Arthur Miller is trying to inform, this dream consumed Willy’s identity. Identity is crucial to oneself because it distinguishes who we are from other and is a source that determines the specialty of one’s being. If one loses his/her identity, like Willy unconsciously gave up his, one looses purpose, hopes, and consciousness of reality in living. Thus, Dave Singleman is a motivation yet a path leading to ultimate destruction. Willy’s demise was merely a “death of a salesman”, not the “death of the salesman.”
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It's so creative that you described Dave Singleman as the path to ultimate destruction. As you said, because Willy merely admired Dave Singleman and had a blind belief that a person can succeed just by being well-liked, he unfortunately lost his identity, giving up to be different from others. Therefore, I think you're definitely right in saying Dave Singleman is the path to ultimate destruction.
Dave Singleman is an illusion which humans tend to make everyday, everyweek and every year. Whenever we want to achieve something we make a goal and work hard to make that goal. However, sometimes we get misleaded and don't realize its haradzous effects as we get into the goal. We should always think of the pros and cons before setting a dream or doing something. If we don't, we have a higher percentage of being misleaded.
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