The Reality Evasion Drug Never does one go through their life without having to deal with some sort of personal conflict. The manner in which people deal with these conflicts vary as much as the prints on a person’s finger. Some try and solve the problem and get rid of it, while others will try and put it aside for as long as possible. Willy Loman’s method in Arthur Miller’s play, The …showed first 75 words of 1011 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1011 total…of them right then and there. This only sets themselves up for a greater collapse when the reality finally hits them, and in many cases can’t run from the knockout punch that is delivered from years of bottled up problems hitting them in one shot. This is exactly what happened with Willy Loman, and in this case he couldn’t handle the realties of his life all at once and it ultimately killed him.