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17). While this image is certainly chilling, the overall tone of the poem is one of "civility," which is actually expressed in lin...

which the individual is supposed to pass, the doctors are usually good at predicting whether a dying person has a few days or a fe...

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

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. ...

between/among society, family and self. She forces her readers to view and view again tendencies of conflict toward self and soci...

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

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...

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...

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

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

he has always valued charisma over actual skill or knowledge. This point is shown in a flashback in which Willy asks his oldest ...

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...

the Sophoclean template, time should also be compressed and restricted, with the action of the play taking no more than one day. B...

young boss, Howard Wagner, about easier sales work in town. However, it soon becomes apparent that Willy is to be discarded by h...

some of lifes toughest questions, questions that are still asked by todays family. Those questions include family values, abuse an...

for she "She breathes with motherly tenderness and love for all, for life itself. And Linda has a heart full and hands outstretche...

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

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....

been killed and because he is deemed a traitor the powers refuse him a burial. Antigone fights for this cause claiming that her br...

for all, for life itself. And Linda has a heart full and hands outstretched to give back to life the love it gives her" (OBrien Bi...

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

play, wants this to the exclusion of reality. At the beginning of the play it becomes apparent that Willy is in trouble. Suffering...

who has always studied hard and done what is right in order to get ahead. He has gone to college and is a successful lawyer. In es...

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

will; summation of all applicable elements will likely lead one to conclude that determinism played a significant and essential ro...

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...

own social responsibility. In a way, this sense of responsibility rubbed off on Biff to the extent that he attempted to gain his ...