Spoilers for Arthur Miller’s play, *Death of a Salesman*, below. I had my heart broken by it yesterday and have been mulling it over since.
Earlier in the play, Linda tells her sons that the insurance inspector divulged to her that Willy’s earlier crash appeared to be a suicide attempt. Having no idea that anyone is onto him, Willy later successfully ends his own life by crashing his car.
Is it unlikely that Willy’s family got the twenty-thousand in life insurance money? And what difference does it make to the meaning of the play, and how it explores the damage of a American dreamer done to his family and himself, whether he succeeds or fails in leaving his family the money?
by Frogs-on-my-back