Dead+-+Janita+&+Jocelyn

**DEAD: **
The lack of growth shows that the members of the Loman family are stuck with the same character flaws, in the same personal ruts throughout time. Willy does not recognize that his business principles do not work, and continues to emphasize the wrong qualities. Shows the “dead” atmosphere of the characters and plot.
 * Lack of Growth: **

//Willy: I slept like a dead one. (beginning of Act 2)//


 * Foreshadows Willy’s death
 * It is ironic how Willy’s mood changes from being self-destructive to optimistic and joyful, despite the abundance of elements that foreshadow his later death

//Willy: … When he died (Dave Slingman) — and by the way he died the death of a salesman, in his green velvet slippers in the smoker of the New York, New Haven and Hartford, going into Boston — when he died, hundreds of salesmen and buyers were at his funeral.//


 * Supports how Willy thinks when he commits suicide that his family will see how well-like he is with all the people who will show up at his funeral.

//Willy: … He flunked the subject, and laid down and died like a hammer hit him! (Biff)//

- Willy had high expectations for Biff and Willy thought that is expectations for Biff feel completely due to his failure. – the death of Biff’s future except Willy is fabricating his own idea of what Biff will be in the future despite facing reality.

//Willy: (moving to the right): Funny, y’know? After all the highways, and the trains, and the appointments, and the years, you end up worth more dead than alive.//


 * Foreshadows that wealth may come out of Willy’s death and contradicts the idea of the American dream. Willy is saying that after all this hard you could just end up with nothing and be worth more dead than alive. Subconsciously he does not believe in what he believes.