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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...

the whole town ultimately. Abigail is the main character and she is the one who instigates, or illuminates, the behaviors of all...

strikingly beautiful girl, an orphan, with an endless capacity for dissembling" (Miller, 1959, p. 487). She is convinced that she ...

from Millers uncle: "As Arthur Miller tells it, the writing of Death of a Salesman began in the winter of 1946/47 with a chance me...

as a witch. As the play progresses, suspicion grows on all sides, until the only way to stop the madness is for John to tell the ...

belief in the "American way," but even at the cost of his sanity he is still unable to succeed. What he has done is to instill the...

century. It is about a town, after accusations from a few girls, which begins a mad hunt for witches that did not exist" (Anonymo...

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

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...

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...

society around the McCarthy trials. It should be understood that the information presented only reflects some of the possibilities...

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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

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

to gain his own independence despite his fathers quelling influence; however, this is never to be for the thirty-four-year-old ner...

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

say, shows that how each man reacted to this situation was a matter of choice -- not fate. Traditionally, much of the blame for ...

to convey the importance of unquestioning obedience to the will of the gods; and, secondly, to emphasize the importance of familia...

has heard rumors about the how his new wifes (his mothers) husband was killed and he is investigating it. He slowly finds hints th...

since the first publication of Shakespeares collected plays in 1623, readers and audiences around the globe have, by their seeming...