Money over friendship

When Charley said “The only thing you got in this world is what you can sell”, he tried to tell Willy that he needed to stop worrying about meaningless stuff such as, the fact that he named someone Howard. It looks like Willy believes that just because many years ago he came up with his boss’s name he deserved some kind of special treatment or special privileges. Willy focused too much on that and didn’t and was not careful at trying to keep his job, so basically Charley tried to tell Willy that he needed to worry more about things that matter such as a good job, family and so on. Another example is that fact that Willy lives wondering what went wrong between him and Biff instead of trying to make things better between him and his family. Willy didn’t realize that he was harming his whole family by acting the way he was acting.

I think it reflects very much in the America from 1940’s because after the black depression it was hard to find a job or even to keep the job someone had. Back then all it matter to make a living or be able to get a job were someone’s skills and qualities, because people was trying to get the most production and hiring the least amount of people possible because businesses could not afford to waste money.

It reflects on today’s society because the competition to get a job is so big, with internet and computers, that friendship or past accomplishments don’t really matter. Americans live with a mentality of not caring what someone did for another person in the past, but instead people look more at what that person can do for someone at this moment, leaving once again all friendship and past accomplishments behind.