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Ben's Effect On Willy Loman In Death Of A Salesman

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Ben’s Effect on Willy In the story, Death of a Salesman, Willy Loman is a traveling salesman in New York that is growing old trying to support him and his family. In the story, we find out that Willy grew up without a father and in the shadow of his older brother Ben. Ben was always the more successful one out of the two. Growing up, Willy looked up to Ben and aspired to be just like him. Ben had big dreams of getting rich. One day, Ben proposed an idea to Willy to go to Alaska to make money buying properties, and hopefully find their father. Willy wanted to go, but he was persuaded by his wife Linda to stay at home with her and their children. Ben then departed for his adventure to try to go to Alaska. However, once departed, Ben found out
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