Stubbornnes in Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller

Some people never change, their stubbornness gets the best of them, and they find it hard to adapt to what happens around them. Being stubborn can also lead you to get into some big trouble if you do not compromise sometimes. In all honesty, I am a stubborn person and hate to compromise, but I will if I have to. In Arthur Miller’s play, Death of a Salesman, Willy Loman is unbelievably stubborn and definitely delusional. Constantly, Willy is hallucinating about things that have already happened, or things that never even could have happened. Although, Biff, Willy’s son, changes by the end of the play, while everyone else stays in a delusional land with Willy. Throughout the play, Willy has hallucinations of his brother Ben, who left Willy†¦show more content†¦As stated before, Happy is only in this for himself, he is selfish and would push his father aside in a second if it would not make him look like a huge jerk, since the father is just a high maintenance baby to him. For some reason, though, Happy feigns interest in the plan to go out west and start a farm with Biff, â€Å"Listen, why don’t you come out west with me?† (Miller 23). Linda, the enabler of the century. She agrees with anything that Willy says, â€Å"I opened the windshield and just let the warm air bathe over me,† (Miller 14), â€Å"No, the wildshields don’t open on the new cars. / But you opened it today. / Me? I didn’t,† (Miller 18) â€Å"Why am I always being contradicted?† (Miller 17), then just allows him to continue living the way he does â€Å"Every day I go down and take away that little rubber pipe. But, when he comes home, I put it back where it was. How can I insult him that way?† (Miller 60) trying to kill himself. She allows him to keep believing the lies he tells himself, only making him worse. If she confronted him about something he would yell at her, and I believe he would have hit her. Biff, the only one with a mind of his own, is a mindless brute trying to be a salesman. He is best at farm work, physical labor is obviously his strong suit, but his father has drilled it into his mind that he has to