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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...

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" (...

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

upon the very nature of man to enjoy learning something about others and in return about him or herself. In this way, he argues, w...

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

unique voice for their character, who is at once symbolic of the old Latin America and also indicative of what the new emerging co...

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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 ...

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

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,...

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

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...

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