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This paper consists of 5 pages and contrasts and compares the protagonists John Proctor and Willy Loman as featured in Arthur Mill...

In six pages Miller's play is examined in terms of the tragic consequences that resulted from the American Dream of economic prosp...

This 6 page paper discusses the concept of true and false values in the play Death of a Salesman. The writer argues that Willy Lom...

In five pages this research paper compares Miller's Death of a Salesman and Faulkner's 'Barn Burning' in an examination of relatio...

In six pages this paper examines how the American Dream, family relationships, and tragedy of Willy Loman within the context of th...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

Willy Loman is a rather pathetic man. He is perhaps average, almost typical but maybe too stereotypical. His life had always been...

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...

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...

and reality. Willy personifies a person who wants certain things from life but is his own biggest obstacle to obtaining them. Th...

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...

workforce. It was the job of people like Willy to provide for his family; that is, most families had only one person bringing home...

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

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,...

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

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

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 ...

state. In this scene he envisions his brother telling his sons about how he had adventures and became a very rich man, a successfu...

of Willys character shows him to be a highly flawed man, who makes innumerable mistakes and brings about his own tragic demise by ...

("Introduction"). An example of this might be the concept of the senseless murder. Some suggest that this is an oxymoron. After al...

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

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

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...

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