Willy is seeing a flashback of a young boy from many years ago talking to Willy’s wife. An example of this is when Willy, Biff, and Happy are all having a conversation over a deal with a business man. Willy struggles with this concept time and time again throughout the novel, especially near the end. When a person can’t tell the difference between real and fake, past, or present it can cause humiliating and even life threatening situations. Miller’s use of flashbacks to create frantic and confusing situations illustrate to the reader how dramatic the effects of losing your memory and sanity can be. In Death of a Salesman, Arthur Miller describes the downfall of a hardworking man’s memory and sanity by using frantic flashbacks, humorous contradiction, and eye-opening foreshadowing. Many people have tried to understand and portray the effect of memory loss in science and artwork. “Every person has memories, but what happens when memories become a device against a person? When a person’s mind is what a person can rely on their entire life and it starts to betray them.
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