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Literary Considerations of Greed

typical, but maybe too stereotypical. He is someone who today would appear on The Jerry Springer Show. His life has always been dy...

Loman and Gatsby Compared and the American Dream Evaluated

Willy Loman in Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman is compared and contrasted with F. Scott Fitzgerald's Gatsby character. The Ame...

Characters and Plot from Miller, O'Connor and Plath

audience must be moved by Willy Loman, a 63-year-old man who has become tired of chasing the ever-elusive American Dream, always f...

Death of a Salesman - Willy Loman and the Betrayal of the American Dream

This 6 page paper discusses the concept of true and false values in the play Death of a Salesman. The writer argues that Willy Lom...

Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman on the Stage and on TV

and character. Miller seems to have conceived of Death of a Salesman as a twentieth century tragedy in the tradition of the ancie...

Willy Loman and Blanche Du Bois

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" (...

Does Willy Loman Qualify as a Loser?

that they are constantly losing, for many losers keep plugging away. And, if they constantly plug away, with good intentions and p...

How Ruth Younger and Linda Loman Support Their Men

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...

Biff in Death of a Salesman

sons that they need to look good, be friendly, and essentially to be what he is not. He has always possessed many different notion...

Arthur Miller Death of a Salesman and Its Symbolism

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 ...

A Comparison, Willy Loman and Blanche DuBois

A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams, and Willy Loman, in Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller, are two of American thea...

Arthur Miller's Plays and Women

In forty pages this paper examines how Miller does little with regards to female character development in such plays as Death of a...

"Death of a Salesman" by Arthur Miller

This essay briefly summarizes the plot of MIller's play "Death of a Salesman" and then analyzes the Willy Loman's character. Three...

Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller

This essay pertains to "Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller" and presents a complete overview of the play that discusses its feat...

The Element of Tragedy in Miller's Death of a Salesman

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...

Connectivity, External and Internal Drive Bays

front panel." Kozierok (2001) also explains that the term "external drive bay" is a "bit of a misnomer" in that the term ex...

Similarities Between 'Death of a Salesman' and 'Oedipus The King'

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

Hamlet, Oedipus & Death of a Salesman

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

Tragic Heroes in Death of a Salesman and Oedipus

A 10 page analysis of the tragic hero as he manifests in these two classic plays. Twists of events affect these heroes differentl...

Tragic Heroes in Death of a Salesman and Oedipus

This 10 page essay explores the tragic heroes in these classic plays. Oedipus believes he makes his own destiny while Willy belie...

The Reader by Bernhard Schlink

In 5 pages this paper presents a character analysis of Hanna and Michael in The Reader in a consideration of Michael's detachment ...

Oedipus Rex: Behavioral Perspective And Interactionist Theory

"childhood and neurotic mental processes" (Appel, 1995, p. 625), Freud was able to create a link between family relationships and ...

"Death of a Salesman" as an Analogy for the Death of the American Dream

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...

Antigone: Conformity and Rebellion

you think, I should not have you, even if you asked to come...apparently the laws of the gods mean nothing to you" (Sophocles). ...

Oedipus the King: Character

intelligent man, a man of integrity, and a man who is willing to seek answers, even if those answers point to him as the problem. ...

Hamlet & Oedipus

consequence. Her grief is obviously great even though the event was decades ago. She tells Oedipus, "...my son/ he wasnt three day...

Two Playwrights Look at Death

so gifted and so special that the world will fall at their feet simply because they exist (Miller). As a result, Biff and Happy (p...

Okonkwo and Oedipus

way out of his situation at all because no matter what he does to avoid the killing of his father and marrying his mother he has n...

The Willy Loman Character in Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller

In six pages this paper considers how Willy's confusion regarding his mentors brother Ben and a revered salesman colleague pervert...

Antigone's Childish Defiance and Pointless Death in the Play by Sophocles

In six pages this paper examines the childish and irrational behavior of Sophocles' female antagonist and argues that fate plays n...