tired of selling on the road because for one, hes been doing it for thirty-four years and he is no longer producing, and two, he wants to be close to his family. He "is one of society's victims, one of those "who landed in the ash can." As Miller explains it, society chews up Willy because he has broken "the law which says a failure in society and in business has no right to live"" (Bloom, Modern Critical Interpretations: Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman 96). In Howards office Willy recalls the memory of whom he considered a great salesman, Dave Singleman. He was well liked and popular with his buyers, even to his death. Hundreds of salesman and buyers were at his funeral. Willy wanted to be just like this man, but...all the buyers he once knew are dead, and all the new age buyers care about is getting a deal over and done with. Theres no personality in it anymore. He cant pay his insurance... "In brief glimses, Willy recognizes that he is a victim. After he is fired, he complains to Charley, "After all the highways and the trains, and the appointments, and the years, you end up worth more dead than alive"" (Bloom, Modern Critical Interpretations: Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman 96). And his boss doesn't even care. During the scene in his office he is preoccupied with his "new toy" a wire recorder. As Willy's life falls apart, the voice of Howards five-year-old son, recorded on the wire, intones the capitals of the states: "The capital of Alabama is Phoenix; the capital of Arkansas is Little Rock." "It's a business, kid,... and everybody's gotta pull his own weight.""In the shock of discovery a child has fallen sick, and the town leaps to cry witchcraft. Abigail to escape whipping embraces the excuse, and in the general hysteria vengeance breaks out" (Bloom, Modern Critical Interpretations: Arthur Miller's The Crucible 3). Reverend Parris has caught Abigail and her friends, with Tituba, dancing in the woods. Sho...
