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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...

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

we know Frank would have fired him long ago, or at the very least, not promoted him. In this we see Willy blaming his new boss for...

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

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...

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...

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...

entertainment or that Chaucer was simply commenting on the humorous characters and times which he experienced during his lifetime....

gave the commencement speech at his daughters graduation from Radcliffe, he concisely summed up the essence of what he found to be...

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...

as Sullivan takes things a step further. He looks at males in three neighborhoods, thus enhancing the possibilities for an expanse...

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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...

some life lesson, Nicholas is trying to get Alison in bed with him, and thus also needs a lesson. There is Alison who is willing t...

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...

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...

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