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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...

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

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

takes in their own world. Even children who generally rebel against their parents will ultimately come to a point where they come ...

they alter the way in which Miller originally set up these elements. The Stage and Setting and Directions In the first product...

what he believes to be truth. He tells her, "Maybe I come into the world backwards, I dont know. But you born with two strikes on ...

resembles any level of success. If he were wise he would be happy he made a living, had a loving wife, a home, and two good sons. ...

for he is having an affair and in this we see him denying he is aging, and denying he is not the success he thinks he is. In essen...

been so completely dependent on the perception of others. His father left his family when Willy was quite young. Consequently, he ...

wife Linda is a very supportive, almost too supportive, wife who is always there for Willy. In many ways she may well be protectin...

view. Wily Lomans life is riddled with failures, including the failure towards his family when Wily Loman has an affair, his work...

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

is doing is supporting him and encouraging his dreams, although they are false. Because of this sort of set-up we are immediatel...

truly found happiness in his small level of success. It is simply his nature to have dreamed big and ignorantly, never having poss...

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...

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

(Miller PG) This move away from benevolence, as interpreted in Death of a Salesman, has caused considerable harm to mans reputati...

position to that of management, or even to that of an incredibly successful salesman/employee. His character was weak, and his int...

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...

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 ...

a job he has obviously done for decades. This image is one that induces sympathy and empathy and thus presents the reader or viewe...

is the assistant to an assistant. Hap lacks even the smallest spark of introspection or self-analysis, but rather is the embodimen...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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