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Loman has limited intelligence or at least that seems to be the case; the point is arguable however. The story itself, as origin...

first time has begun to take a look at what his years of toil have produced. The comment, then, on the American...

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

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

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

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...

and two shabby suitcases" (15). In all honesty, this is all this author states concerning the staging of this play. However, we ca...

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

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

His fathers expectations of him are something that Biff knows he can never fulfill, therefore, he becomes critical of himself when...

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...

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

Introduction For anyone who has read any of Arthur Millers work, or seen any of his plays, there can be little doubt that he was ...

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

model to his boys of what a successful and well-respected man should be; however, the legacy he left as a father was a model of ho...

hath an infant immortality, a being capable of eternal joy or sorrow, confided to her care-to be trained up by her to righteousnes...

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...

complete madness, until at last Elizabeth Proctor, who is completely innocent, is charged with being a witch (Miller, 1952). Not s...

audience" (66). The reversal refers to a reversal in fortune, which Aristotle believed was classically represented in a fall from...

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

of the play supports the concept of Willy as someone who is "stuck" emotionally at an immature level. Conclusion : As this indica...

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

In the beginning of the play one sees how Willy has no respect for his son Biff. He argues with his wife saying "Biff is a lazy bu...

of the American Dream with Benjamin Franklin who seemed to prove that through honest and hard work an individual could find succes...

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

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

conflict, if the truth were told more chaos would erupt and more confusion that would demand the townspeople look at honesty and t...

them dream jobs. They are vivid, vibrant characters, though they are not especially likeable, and its easy to see that the life ha...

to Bill" (Kosenko). The women, in general, accept their position as submissive in the little community and it is actually only Tes...