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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...

it pertains to ones identity. Franklin essentially constructs his approach to self, or identity, never really calling it self or...

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....

This paper pertains to Hispanics Americans and the importance of these immigrants in achieving the American Dream. Three pages in ...

they alter the way in which Miller originally set up these elements. The Stage and Setting and Directions In the first product...

what he believes to be truth. He tells her, "Maybe I come into the world backwards, I dont know. But you born with two strikes on ...

takes in their own world. Even children who generally rebel against their parents will ultimately come to a point where they come ...

dedication, and vision. Rather bases his story on over thirty key interviews that he held over the years, interviews that...

play, wants this to the exclusion of reality. At the beginning of the play it becomes apparent that Willy is in trouble. Suffering...

who has always studied hard and done what is right in order to get ahead. He has gone to college and is a successful lawyer. In es...

will; summation of all applicable elements will likely lead one to conclude that determinism played a significant and essential ro...

position to that of management, or even to that of an incredibly successful salesman/employee. His character was weak, and his int...

the Sophoclean template, time should also be compressed and restricted, with the action of the play taking no more than one day. B...

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 ...

is the assistant to an assistant. Hap lacks even the smallest spark of introspection or self-analysis, but rather is the embodimen...

that his old manager would have given him a promotion. Now, in all honesty, we do not know that Frank would have promoted Willy at...

"Hamlet," the troubled Danish prince is morose and troubled because, just a short time after his fathers death, his mother remarri...

move comfortably in the social circle of people like the Buchanans. Fitzgerald shows us all the trappings of wealth: the gorgeous...

achieved little even though they are in their 30s when the play opens. Linda, Willys wife, desperately tries to hold the family ...

major events that shaped his life. This shows that, from early childhood, Willy had no father figure on which to base his ideas of...

he has always valued charisma over actual skill or knowledge. This point is shown in a flashback in which Willy asks his oldest ...

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

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

resembles any level of success. If he were wise he would be happy he made a living, had a loving wife, a home, and two good sons. ...

for he is having an affair and in this we see him denying he is aging, and denying he is not the success he thinks he is. In essen...

between/among society, family and self. She forces her readers to view and view again tendencies of conflict toward self and soci...

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