Willy's
father symbolizes a much simpler time: a time of pre-industrialization, when the craftsman was
both maker and marketer; when workers could enjoy some degree of autonomy as opposed to the
atomized nature of the modern industrial employee. Willy's father was also a salesman, but
crucially he made the things he sold, putting his heart and soul into each and every flute he so
carefully crafted. In this way, Willy's father had an intimate connection with the things that
he sold; he wasn't alienated from them in the way that Willy is from the goods he
peddles.
Willy never knew his father, and...
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