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the freedom and opportunities offered by America. In other words, this immigrant mother means well. She simply wants her daughter ...

Tom is central to defining the family stratification in the play, and also shapes a distinct view of the way familial associations...

his meaningless and mind-numbing job. Ivan Ilyich becomes aware that something "new and dreadful" was happening to him, somethin...

In six pages this paper analyzes the plays The Glass Menagerie, A Streetcar Named Desire, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, and Night of the ...

This paper examines the themes of death in Tolstoy's The Death of Ivan Ilyich, and Miller's, The Death of a Salesman. This five p...

at home. He has to find some way to escape without destroying his family the way his father had sixteen years ago. It is for this ...

In seven pages this paper contrasts and compares how the authors utilize symbolism in these respective works. Seven sources are c...

we look at the content of the play and how it may be staged we have a better idea of how to interpret the work. It is after lookin...

the additional mouth to feed will put the family into jeopardy. The audience knows that she is considering abortion. To end all of...

number and must join the rat race. Individuality is not prized and someone who has opinions, especially if that person is a woman,...

path to happiness. When Jim comes over for dinner on that fateful evening, he is in several instances cold and behaves selfishly....

memory of past events. He explains that he will not be a narrator, "I am the opposite of a stage magician. He gives you illusion t...

In many ways the social failure of America as a whole at this time in history is symbolized by the personal failure experienced...

scene begins Laura Wingfield (Karen Allen) and her gentleman caller Jim OConnor (James Naughton) are looking at Lauras "glass mena...

the one who is primarily the main focus of the play and it is her collection that bears the title of the story, as she collects gl...

around the characters. Through the decaying setting, and also a setting that is quite dreamlike, the story begins on a very allusi...

the audience; and finally, it must be complex (McManus, 1999). Complex here means the plot contains a "reversal of intention (peri...

These boys are very reflective of how children will take on the traits of their father, through the insistent nature of their fath...

is doing is supporting him and encouraging his dreams, although they are false. Because of this sort of set-up we are immediatel...

view. Wily Lomans life is riddled with failures, including the failure towards his family when Wily Loman has an affair, his work...

truly found happiness in his small level of success. It is simply his nature to have dreamed big and ignorantly, never having poss...

a job he has obviously done for decades. This image is one that induces sympathy and empathy and thus presents the reader or viewe...

faults at all. In our modern society, and perhaps in the past century or so, a tragedy does not necessarily possess all those qu...

of the American theater; it is also one of the first to combine realism and symbolism successfully. This paper discusses Williamss...

and fancies as Willy himself, and his wife Linda has no skills that would help her find a job; she is a housewife and has cared fo...

of the language in the beginning (Miller 56). Even though he is not "the finest character that ever lived" he does deserve some re...

any true vision or drive. He was, in many ways, nothing but a limited man in the position of a salesman. He could not grow with th...

Willy Loman is a rather pathetic man. He is perhaps average, almost typical but maybe too stereotypical. His life had always been...

him long ago, or at the very least, not promoted him. In this we see Willy blaming his new boss for his position. He puts the blam...

to be. Fate has other things in store for Lennie and in the end, it can be said that their friendship is tested one last time....