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II, Miller was able to show that the American Dream as a way of life is a sham -- and why. Death of a Salesman tells the story of...

to Bill" (Kosenko). The women, in general, accept their position as submissive in the little community and it is actually only Tes...

brother, his time away from home when he worked on ranches where he states, "theres nothing more inspiring or-beautiful than the s...

soreness of his palms...then carries his case out into the living-room...Im tired to death" he tells his wife (Miller 12-13). Hi...

shoeshine ... A salesman is got to dream, boy," says Charley, a friend of the family. Willy sees the image of himself coming apart...

condition involves the paradoxical feeling on the part of the spectator that what has happened could not have happened otherwise, ...

to be popular. It can be said to be part of the human condition. But, it can also be said, that Willy Loman, the sixty something t...

for the taking, he can carry on - he can endure the countless humiliations of having his territory dwindle to a small region in Ne...

importance to his life, telling her, "Youre my foundation and my support" (18). Everything he did was ultimately rooted in love f...

dramatic action by the end of the play (cathartic release), and falls into two parts comprising a complication and a d?nouement(El...

to gain his own independence despite his fathers quelling influence; however, this is never to be for the thirty-four-year-old ner...

Loman has limited intelligence or at least that seems to be the case; the point is arguable however. The story itself, as origin...

of Willys character shows him to be a highly flawed man, who makes innumerable mistakes and brings about his own tragic demise by ...

sons that they need to look good, be friendly, and essentially to be what he is not. He has always possessed many different notion...

not going to happen, and she wants her sons to be good sons, which they are not, at least in her eyes. Perhaps she knows that ther...

plague wreaks death and despair onto the Theban people, Oedipus pride motivates him to make a deal whereby he reveals the identity...

on the socioeconomic totem pole. He has faced personal and professional adversity much of his life. He feels inferior to his old...

sons leads him to raise them as privileged beings that deserve having everything handed to them, simply by virtue of who they are....

This essay pertains to Arthur Miller's "Death of a Salesman" and Tennessee Williams' "The Glass Menagerie" and how each play hand...

so gifted and so special that the world will fall at their feet simply because they exist (Miller). As a result, Biff and Happy (p...

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...

In six pages Miller's play is examined in terms of the tragic consequences that resulted from the American Dream of economic prosp...

These two works are contrasted and compared in six pages with the desire for financial, emotional, and social success being the pr...

In five pages Schlondorff's 1985 interpretation of Miller's play is discussed in terms of acting especially Dustin Hoffman's and J...

In six pages this essay analyzes the many themes Miller incorporated into his play that is frequently misunderstood as a result of...

In five pages this paper examines how the tragic hero's journey is thematically portrayed in these plays. Three sources are cited...

for all, for life itself. And Linda has a heart full and hands outstretched to give back to life the love it gives her" (OBrien Bi...

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....

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...