What is the significance of Willy's suicie attempts?

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Willy’s suicide attempts show his failure of achieving his American dream. These suicide attempts are significant because it shows Willy’s struggle to his failure to achieve his American dream and also shows his characterization. His American dream is to be like Dave Singleman who is well liked by everyone and makes money even until in his eighties. Willy, unlike Singleman, cannot make enough money and has to borrow money from Howard. Since he has not been a successful salesman and has to face the reality such as economic difficulties, he probably is depressed and disappointed in himself. Willy has such a disillusioned ideal that he even attempts to kill himself when he cannot reach his ideal. He doesn’t want to accept the fact that he has not achieved American dream unlike Singleman.

From the Willy’s suicide attempts we can see that he is a quite stubborn figure who tries to prove that he has not failed to achieve his American dream. He cannot accept He is too caught up with his dream that the only way to escape from himself and his American dream is killing himself. By killing himself he can escape from the reality and free from his collapse to achieve his American dream. He tries to kill himself by inhaling gas using a rubber hose. He expects that he will be free from the pressure of accomplishing his American dream. He will also expect that from his death, he can be free from himself, Linda, his family members and the guilt of committing adultery. He has lived a false or fake life which has not show the real self of him. He secretly has had an affair, has hid the fact that he borrowed money from Howard and has bought stockings for Woman not for Linda. Not achieving his American dream and self-realization will mean that these facts will be revealed to his family members. He, however, is too stubborn to reveal these facts to his family and accept the fact that he has not achieved the American dream. He has gone too far to go back. Willy cannot take these heavy-loaded untruths anymore that he commits suicide. He, however, doesn’t know that his family members already know about these factors that he has tried to hide. Willy will expect that these facts will be remain unknown when he kills himself, but this doesn’t happen because the family members already know about his reality. His death also will not prove that he can achieve the American dream, but rather prove that he failed to achieve his false American dream.