Arthur Miller said of women: “I enjoy the company of women. Life is boring without them” (guardian.co.uk). The companionship that Miller believes women provide becomes an important aspect in the decisions he makes in his adulthood. During his adulthood, he decided to pursue short-lived relationships and marry three different women. Soon after college, Miller married his college sweetheart, Mary Grace Slattery, and started a family with her. Shortly thereafter, Miller met and immediately bonded with the iconic Marilyn Monroe. He later decided to leave his wife of six years and two children to marry Monroe. After being together for two years, Miller decided to divorce the suicidal Marilyn Monroe. After his decision to leave Monroe, Miller married Igne Morath in an attempt to fill the void of not having a partner. Miller's general lack of concern for women's feelings reflected in his writings. This companionship that Miller desired throughout his adulthood led him to engage with many women, and his multiple relationships with women in his adulthood directly connect to the womanizing actions that Happy and Willy promote. and Biff finally refuses in Miller's play Death of a Salesman. Through Willy's subordinate view of women, Happy's treatment of women following his father's greedy motives, and Biff's dynamic change in his view of women, Death of a Salesman portrays the subordinate view of women through objectification and submission. struggling salesman, Willy doesn't get the success and attention he desires; as a result, he subjugates the women involved in his life by claiming superiority over Linda and involving himself in relationships to cope with his own disappointments. With... middle of paper... a new company merges in the writing of his play, Death of a Salesman. Through the lesson taught by Willy and the multiple women Happy interacts with, both Willy and Happy promote the idea of having short-lived relationships with women, similar to the relationships Miller shared with women during his marriages to them. As a result of constant engagement with many women, Happy, similar to Miller, is never satisfied with the company a woman offers him. Although Willy was married, he was caught having an affair with another woman to add companionship to his companionship and feel appreciated. Due to Happy's immaturity and constant womanizing of the women in the play, Happy's future involving a stable woman in his life seems unlikely, while Biff's maturity provides credibility that he will find a woman with whom he will have a long-term relationship..
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