Importance of Requiem

How important is the requiem to the play in content and mood? A requiem is a special ceremony to honour the souls of the dead. In the requiem we see Linda, Biff, Happy and Charley paying their last respect to Willy, who had died earlier on. In many ways, the play has a great significant, as it gives us the opportunity to assess the validity of what Willy said about his funeral and to an …

…he had commented earlier on. The requiem captures a feeling of sorrow, and sympathy for Willy, that he had spent his life dreaming an empty and useless dream. We, as audience should be sympathetic to Willy, and should share that sorrow of Biff and Linda, even though Willy might not have been a successful, respected man he boast he is. The fact that Willy is ordinary should give us a sense that the tragedy could