"Why didn't anybody come? It was a nice funeral. But where are all the people he knew?" p.1629
Wow I definitely did not expect such an irony like this to end the play. The entire focus of the character Willy is his impressions on other people. He goes about his whole life trying to be well-liked by everyone. He even raises his two sons in this manner. He thinks that success is directly correlated with how many people like you and how well-known you are. Nothing could be more ironic than having only two people outside his family show up to his funeral. All his life Charley had been there for him and still is at his funeral. However, it is ironic that Charley, who never pushed success on his own son, has a son who ended up being the most successful out of all of the characters. It is very ironic for practically no one to pay their respects to Willy at his funeral, and it is even more ironic that the two who do are Charley and Bernard.
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