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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...

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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...

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...

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

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 ...

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

Willy Loman as Failed Father Figure in Millers "Death of a Salesman" Research Compiled for The Paper Store, Enterprises Inc...

"Hamlet," the troubled Danish prince is morose and troubled because, just a short time after his fathers death, his mother remarri...

achieved little even though they are in their 30s when the play opens. Linda, Willys wife, desperately tries to hold the family ...

major events that shaped his life. This shows that, from early childhood, Willy had no father figure on which to base his ideas of...

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...

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....

him long ago, or at the very least, not promoted him. In this we see Willy blaming his new boss for his position. He puts the blam...