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and new trends. He could not open his mind to new ideas concerning anything, including his family. In essence, he was a man with a...

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...

is that so many people believe in ideals like Willys. In the end, what is show is that a man with so much potential ends up losing...

timeless quality and subject matter. It is also interesting to note that despite the plays relevance to American society, it wa...

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

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

us are perhaps afraid to pursue the thing that would make us the most happy but is likely to also be the most risky. We may fear ...

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

young men. One of the great ironies of the play is that Willy has sold the boys a perverted version of the American Dream. He has ...

a tragic character as he remembers events from his past and why things went wrong. Through this process, he seems to be losing tou...

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

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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" (...

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

Loman in Death of a Salesman is a rather pathetic character. He is average, almost typical, but maybe too stereotypical. He is som...

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

year. The sales department needs to be the most accurate in its forecasting for the future, for all other departments needs will ...

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...

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

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