ly curse aspect can be seen in Ben and Happy. Willy wants to become everything Ben is, rich and confident, but Ben is also dead. Willys father went off to Alaska to find wealth but also ended up dead. In the Requiem, Happy vows to finish what his father started and therefore following in his footsteps, Im gonna show you and everybody else that Willy Loman did not die in vain. He ends the proclamation with, Im gonna win it for him. Three people with the same goal, economic success and freedom, with what can be assumed the same outcome, death. Alternatively, the story of David Singleman acts as an oracle in the way that it foreshadows Willys death, - and by the way he died the death of a salesman.Within the past, present and future actions of characters the effects of a preordained outcome are clearly visible. By looking at character relations and incorporating old techniques with more modern ones a dark pattern of design looms over the Loman family....
