Salesman

A sale is the act of selling a product or service in return for money or other compensation. It is an act of completion of a commercial activity.

The seller or salesperson – the provider of the goods or services – completes a sale in response to an acquisition or to an appropriation or to a request. There follows the passing of title (property or ownership) in the item, and the application and due settlement of a price, the obligation for which arises due to the seller's requirement to pass ownership. Ideally, a seller agrees upon a price at which he willingly parts with ownership of or any claim upon the item. The purchaser, though a party to the sale does not execute the sale, only the seller does that. To be precise the sale completes prior to the payment and gives rise to the obligation of payment. If the seller completes the first two above stages (consent and passing ownership) of the sale prior to settlement of the price, the sale remains valid and gives rise to an obligation to pay.

Willy is a salesman, but as Charley tells him, what he doesn’t seem to understand is that “the only thing you got in this world is what you can sell” (1256).

 What do you think Charley means by that? I believe Charley means that what Willy sells is the only way he can make a dollar. He can’t support his family unless he sells what he owns.

 How does it reflect the America of the late 1940’s? Being a salesman in the 1940’s was how people made their money. It is quite different now.

How does it reflect the America of 2012? Now, there are several different ways to being a salesman. We don’t see many traveling salesmen’s like we did back then. Now they usually just work for a company that stays in one place.