YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Father and Son Willy and Biff Loman in Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
Essays 61 - 90
sons leads him to raise them as privileged beings that deserve having everything handed to them, simply by virtue of who they are....
Willy Loman as Failed Father Figure in Millers "Death of a Salesman" Research Compiled for The Paper Store, Enterprises Inc...
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 ...
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...
takes in their own world. Even children who generally rebel against their parents will ultimately come to a point where they come ...
In five pages the development of Biff through different life stages from schoolboy to adulthood are examined with a discussion of ...
excuses for that sons pathological misbehavior; he virtually ignores his second son; hes a real bastard to friends, neighbors and ...
He had a good dream. Its the only dream you can have - to come out number-one man. He fought it out here, and this is where...
own social responsibility. In a way, this sense of responsibility rubbed off on Biff to the extent that he attempted to gain his ...
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...
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...
In five pages Arthur Miller's social drama is analyzed in its portrayal of post World War II family values as they existed in 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...
more and more about Willys life, than it is not some innate tragic flaw in his character which has led to his misfortune, but a co...
In five pages Miller's protagonist Willy Loman's life is compared with the American definition of capitalism and its tragic conseq...
353). Symbols present another layer to a story, as well as another realm for questioning. Who or what is "Young Goodman Brown" t...
in his society. Sometimes he is one who has been displaced from it, sometimes one who seeks to attain it for the first time, but ...
In five pages the concept of the functional family is defined and then contrasted with the dysfunctions exhibited by the Loman cla...
for the taking, he can carry on - he can endure the countless humiliations of having his territory dwindle to a small region in Ne...
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...
in his own quest to find his own American Dream, squanders an inheritance on a one-shot deal that goes bad. And in the old adage t...
by some serious flaw of character and/or judgment," with the ultimate goal being to inspire either pity or fear in the audience (K...
bowling alley, she refuses to have her brother-in-law see her yet: ""Oh no, no, no. I wont be looked at in this merciless glare" (...
trapped. Our era has prompted most to believe that yesterdays luxuries are indeed todays necessities. By way of two acclaimed l...
In a paper consisting of six pages the influential factors that resulted in Arthur Miller's composition of the Pulitzer prize winn...
condition involves the paradoxical feeling on the part of the spectator that what has happened could not have happened otherwise, ...
and two shabby suitcases" (15). In all honesty, this is all this author states concerning the staging of this play. However, we ca...
dramatic action by the end of the play (cathartic release), and falls into two parts comprising a complication and a d?nouement(El...
is the assistant to an assistant. Hap lacks even the smallest spark of introspection or self-analysis, but rather is the embodimen...
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...