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Tom is central to defining the family stratification in the play, and also shapes a distinct view of the way familial associations...

his meaningless and mind-numbing job. Ivan Ilyich becomes aware that something "new and dreadful" was happening to him, somethin...

In six pages this paper analyzes the plays The Glass Menagerie, A Streetcar Named Desire, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, and Night of the ...

be physically there in the production; the idea that she has a handicap, according to Williams, need only be suggested. The proble...

This paper examines the themes of death in Tolstoy's The Death of Ivan Ilyich, and Miller's, The Death of a Salesman. This five p...

at home. He has to find some way to escape without destroying his family the way his father had sixteen years ago. It is for this ...

In seven pages this paper contrasts and compares how the authors utilize symbolism in these respective works. Seven sources are c...

In many ways the social failure of America as a whole at this time in history is symbolized by the personal failure experienced...

around the characters. Through the decaying setting, and also a setting that is quite dreamlike, the story begins on a very allusi...

scene begins Laura Wingfield (Karen Allen) and her gentleman caller Jim OConnor (James Naughton) are looking at Lauras "glass mena...

the one who is primarily the main focus of the play and it is her collection that bears the title of the story, as she collects gl...

path to happiness. When Jim comes over for dinner on that fateful evening, he is in several instances cold and behaves selfishly....

we look at the content of the play and how it may be staged we have a better idea of how to interpret the work. It is after lookin...

memory of past events. He explains that he will not be a narrator, "I am the opposite of a stage magician. He gives you illusion t...

the additional mouth to feed will put the family into jeopardy. The audience knows that she is considering abortion. To end all of...

number and must join the rat race. Individuality is not prized and someone who has opinions, especially if that person is a woman,...

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

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 ...

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

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...

him long ago, or at the very least, not promoted him. In this we see Willy blaming his new boss for his position. He puts the blam...

to be. Fate has other things in store for Lennie and in the end, it can be said that their friendship is tested one last time....

deal of understanding in this particular line. We note that the staging is "smart" which tells us that the staging is perhaps cris...

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...

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

Loman in Death of a Salesman is a rather pathetic character. He is average, almost typical, but maybe too stereotypical. He is som...

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

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...

excuses for that sons pathological misbehavior; he virtually ignores his second son; hes a real bastard to friends, neighbors and ...

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...