Death of a Salesman :: essays research papers

My Fathers Dream and My RealityThe bond between a son and his father is one that should sustain the test of time. I have looked up to my father for the majority of my life and hes beliefs of life have influenced the mood I grew up to be the man I am today. However in the end, a true man will follow his own dreams and shoot his own future.My dream was working with my hands in the outdoors. It has taken many years but I now knew that was what I wanted to do with my life. My father, Willy Loman, I believe shared this same passion, however, he suppressed his dreams as it did not fit in with is predetermined mould for a beloved salesman. So, it then became my fathers dream to work in sales and be well-liked. This is what my father had implanted into me from a young age. Now returning home after cardinal years of trying to find myself, we still had money to pay off on the refrigerator and the mortgage on the house still needed to be paid. These pending debts, like daggers ripping throu gh my dreams, forced me suppress my own dreams and now seek the stable career of a salesman. I had once worked as a salesman for Bill Oliver so I decided to go to him in order to find a job. Bill Olivers office was finely supply and had a wafting smell of cologne. The waiting room walls seemed to tower down upon me somehow mocking me. As with each hour that went by the walls seem to become big and I become smaller. Sitting in that room waiting hour after hour for Bill Oliver made me think about why I was there and what I was doing. After much deliberation I concluded I was never a salesman for him, I was just a shipping clerk. I had talked my self up so much that I had turned my dishonesty to what I believed to be true. I had blurred the line between illusion and candor foolishly thinking everyone else would follow. I questioned myself why this was so. The answer to my question lied somewhere in the foundations of my past. Throughout my life I have been filled with extensive ide as and aspirations but nothing has ever become of them. I am a failure.