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

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...

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...

own. As a result of their inability to take responsibility for the prophecy they suffered at the hands of their son. Oedipus pu...

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...

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

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" (...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...