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

them dream jobs. They are vivid, vibrant characters, though they are not especially likeable, and its easy to see that the life ha...

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

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...

His fathers expectations of him are something that Biff knows he can never fulfill, therefore, he becomes critical of himself when...

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

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

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...

and two shabby suitcases" (15). In all honesty, this is all this author states concerning the staging of this play. However, we ca...

first time has begun to take a look at what his years of toil have produced. The comment, then, on the American...

own social responsibility. In a way, this sense of responsibility rubbed off on Biff to the extent that he attempted to gain his ...

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

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

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

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

bowling alley, she refuses to have her brother-in-law see her yet: ""Oh no, no, no. I wont be looked at in this merciless glare" (...

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...

the span of a day comes face-to-face with the realization that the American Dream has become a nightmare of his own making, that t...

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...

model to his boys of what a successful and well-respected man should be; however, the legacy he left as a father was a model of ho...

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

Introduction For anyone who has read any of Arthur Millers work, or seen any of his plays, there can be little doubt that he was ...

typical, but maybe too stereotypical. He is someone who today would appear on The Jerry Springer Show. His life has always been dy...

Prize as well as the New York Drama Critics Circle Award when it was produced and published in 1949....

Due to the power structures that already exist in a battering relationship, confronting marital infidelity is likely to lead to fu...

In five pages this paper examines the tragedy of the protagonist's failure to face his own feelings as portrayed in Arthur Miller'...

In five pages this research paper discusses the tragic hero classification as applied to Arthur Miller's Willy Loman common man pr...

in his own quest to find his own American Dream, squanders an inheritance on a one-shot deal that goes bad. And in the old adage t...

by some serious flaw of character and/or judgment," with the ultimate goal being to inspire either pity or fear in the audience (K...

audience" (66). The reversal refers to a reversal in fortune, which Aristotle believed was classically represented in a fall from...