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

tumbles into despair. All the while, he treats his wife and sons quite negatively. This is not an uncommon scenario. A man has tro...

the Tony, the Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize. It is a classic of the American theater and remains popular in performa...

rules that serve as a compass for the character when facing great and insurmountable odds. Willy had no moral code. He worshiped m...

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...

play, I think, and maybe that is what does it. We are faced with the spectacle of all that love being lost on someone who can t r...

we know Frank would have fired him long ago, or at the very least, not promoted him. In this we see Willy blaming his new boss for...

included intelligence, depth, compassion, and integrity. It was now a dream that focused primarily on material success and the dre...

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...

may very well lie in the study of some of the most earliest of heroes from the texts of Homer and Plato. By far one of the most en...

that they are constantly losing, for many losers keep plugging away. And, if they constantly plug away, with good intentions and p...

deal of understanding in this particular line. We note that the staging is "smart" which tells us that the staging is perhaps cris...

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...

modeled after his own life and experiences, including his relationship with the tormented Marilyn Monroe; however, Miller has neve...

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" (...

of the play supports the concept of Willy as someone who is "stuck" emotionally at an immature level. Conclusion : As this indica...

the others; interestingly, he is also probably the weakest character. What is Mamet doing by drenching his audiences in the F-wor...

In the beginning of the play one sees how Willy has no respect for his son Biff. He argues with his wife saying "Biff is a lazy bu...

bodies in its past, the King confidently reassured his ailing people, "My search has found one way to treat our disease - and I ha...

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...

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...

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

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

and just let the warm air bathe over me" (Miller 14). But then he suddenly starts to run off the road: "Im tellin ya, I absolutely...

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

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

told him about the American Dream. It is likely that when he ages and gets to a point in his life when he has worked for many deca...

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