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I believe that the reason this play is so iconic is because it truly deals with the problems of "every man." Willy Loman had no super powers, he wasn't going through headline invoking problems. His issues and those of his family are things that many people seem to cope with in their day to day lives but they tend to turn a blind eye to seeing how it can truly break down someone's character. All of the characters were very intriguing yet there were things left out in the text that I wish would have been touched upon more. Miller emphasized the way that Biff and Willy kept disappointing each other. The story told me that Willy lived his life with regret in regards to wanting to be someone and providing an end result rather than the journey. I understood that Biff felt suffocated by his father and then ashamed of him when he saw that Willy was not the hero everyone painted him out to be. Their home life was painted with quite a few lies in order to cover up the bigger regrets in life. I understand that having Biff walk in on Willy with another woman was the first complete crack in this little life the Loman's painted for each other, but I was expecting something a little more scarring. I was hoping that Bernard was right, and that Willy told Biff not to take summer school and that is why Biff's life went down a little bit. Don't get me wrong, I understand why Biff left, having realized so much of his life and his hero appeared a fake, but I was hoping for something a little juicier. And maybe the fact that it wasn't that juicy just adds to the everyman iconic appeal. I wish we knew more about Linda. Why does she stay with him? Why does she put up with him? Why does she love him? The beginning when we first see Linda and how much she cares for Willy and how Willy knocks her aside was intriguing because I wanted to see how their relationship got to that point, but then I never really found much of that in the text. Perhaps the reason Willy treats Linda so horribly is because of the stocking incident with the woman and Biff in the hotel room? Yet Linda must need a reason as to why she would put up with him. I just wanted to hear a little bit more of her story. And Happy. There was so much there to play with in regards to Happy! He was always the peon, shoved aside. It was heartbreaking in the flashback scenes when he was trying to show Willy how he lost weight and he was just completely ignored. And Willy tried so hard to keep the Loman family facade going, despite all of this. I just wanted to know why, why did he try so hard? Why did he stay? Why was his name changed from Harold to Happy in school? Yet maybe, because he is ignored by everyone in his family, the audience must ignore him as well? I was really really hoping for a huge twist at the end though where Happy was the one who died and the title came from the fact that Happy spent so much time "selling" the picture of a happy family to everyone so he was the family that died. I felt like Miller put all of these juicy characters and relationships on stage (Charley and Willy, what happened to them? What is Charley's relationship to Ben?) and then he just sort of left them. Maybe that was the point all along? I'm not sure.