LINDA: Why didn’t anybody come?
CHARLEY: It was a very nice funeral.
LINDA: But where are all the people he knew? Maybe they blame him.
– Arthur Miller
Death of a Salesman, Requiem. Willy Loman was the great deceiver, but most of all he deceived himself. He believed that his funeral would be massive with large numbers of friends, other salesman and customers turning up on account of him being so well liked. Yet the only people present apart from family were neighbors Charley and Bernard. Willy wasn’t anything as popular as he made himself out to be. He lived in a world of illusion and his final and one of his biggest illusions was the spectacular funeral he predicted after his death by suicide.