Anyone know the significance of the past in death of a salesman

>>7808061

I don't know, you tell me. Seriously, tell us what you think and then we can discuss about it. We ain't doing your homework, fag.

T he past highlights Willys inability to accept change. It also helps creating a sharp contrast between his former self and him now. Willys incompetence to accept himself as a failed man only adds to the dramatic nature. Pretty much all I have got

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Look in my face; my name is Might-have-been;
I am also called No-more, Too-late, Farewell;

—Dante Gabriel Rossetti

There were still open doors in the past. They've all shut. The great American Fake It Till You Make It ethos deprives itself of oxygen as ambition and reality part—despair & delusion rush into the void.

>>7808120
I appreciate the starting point on willy's earlier years of optimism slowly deteriorating into the man he has become

>>7808120

That line is used in Long Days Journey Into Night to amazing effect