The Many Faces of Death Death is seemingly a defined term, but its not. Through usage of language can be made to represent physical, spiritual or emotional death. Only by closely examining the exact language used can one understand the death taking place, and the effects that stream into everyone’s life. Willy Loman dies, this is known to be true. He crashes his car in order to show Biff how important he was and …showed first 75 words of 696 total…

…showed last 75 words of 696 total…cheating husband with feelings of grander. This death, the death of his pride in himself, left him nothing, he became a shell of a man. A man who finds solace in his illusions and fantasies. The death of a salesman is not his crashing the car, because he was deal long before that “accident”. He died the day he lost his self-respect, and the love of his son. Bibliography Miller, Arthur "Death of a Salesman"