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

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

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

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...

is silly as the family lives in New York City. And "Happy" is ridiculous; perhaps Willy thought that if he gave his son that name,...

30). Cheated out of his greatest desire, Troy works now as a garbage man and in middle-age, is growing increasingly bitter (Bloom)...

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 ...

smart enough to know that their world is not the same as the story worlds to which they are introduced at an early age. Bruno Bet...

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...

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...

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

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...

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 ...

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...

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

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 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...

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...

love, but have to ultimately abide by their previous obligations, as they are both happily married. Death of a Salesman (1985, pro...

and we are inside Lomans house. We read that as the light changes we are forced to see how this house looks somewhat pathetic in t...

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...

finally come to terms with the reality of the situation. Happy, of course, is a chip off the old block, confined into his narrow a...

of how they look at the world. For the two sons this image is different. Biff is the intelligent brother who is often angered a...

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