The author's values ​​and attitudesThe way in which fiction texts begin and end provides a clear indication of the dominant values ​​and attitudes held by the authorThe values ​​and Attitudes advocated by the author are often reflected in their writing, whether it be the themes involved in the story or the way it begins and ends. The author adopts a particular point of view and uses it throughout the story to influence and influence readers and viewers. This is often done through effective use of characterization. Arthur Miller, in his play "Death of a Salesman", uses his main character, Willy Loman, to bring the audience closer to the nature of modern life and "expose what happens when a man has no control over the forces of life and he has no sense of values ​​that leads him to that kind of grip." Willy Loman is 63 years old, a traveling salesman for a New York company for 36 years, in the extreme stages of exhaustion and on the verge of suicide. He has his eyes set on success. For Willy, success means two things: being rich and being popular, things he has never achieved or probably will never achieve. We are destined to blame Willy for having all the wrong dreams, or rather, for keeping those dreams long after they no longer corresponded to reality. This is shown in the requiem, when at his father's funeral, Biff states, "He had the wrong dreams, all the wrong ones." Biff knows that Willy should have continued making things with his hands, instead of focusing on sales, where he faltered. This is supported by Biff's comment to Charley: "...there's more of him on that porch than in all the sales he ever made" to which comes his response, "Yes. He was a happy man with a lot of concrete." Willy's death is seen as the death of a dream. Willy chose to imitate his father's salesman side, a choice that was heavily influenced by his meeting with Dave Singleman, who also comes to represent for Willy the father he never knew. as a role model in life, as demonstrated by Willy announcing to Howard: "...and without even leaving his room, at the age of eighty-four, he was making a living. And when I saw him, I knew that selling was the greatest career a man could ever want.