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"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...

Arthur Miller’s Importance in Today’s Literary Canon

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...

Fathers: Death of a Salesman and The Glass Menagerie

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...

Death of a Salesman and the American Dream

of the American Dream with Benjamin Franklin who seemed to prove that through honest and hard work an individual could find succes...

Miller’s Death of a Salesman/A Greek Tragedy

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

Man and Nature in Death of a Salesman

state. In this scene he envisions his brother telling his sons about how he had adventures and became a very rich man, a successfu...

"Death of a Salesman" and Its Relevance to Today

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

Submissive Women: Jackson, Miller, and Steinbeck

to Bill" (Kosenko). The women, in general, accept their position as submissive in the little community and it is actually only Tes...

Death of a Salesman's Willy Loman as a Poor Role Model for Biff and Happy

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...

All My Sons and Death of a Salesman

sons leads him to raise them as privileged beings that deserve having everything handed to them, simply by virtue of who they are....

Arthur Miller

Introduction For anyone who has read any of Arthur Millers work, or seen any of his plays, there can be little doubt that he was ...

Miller, Williams, Fantasy and Wishful Thinking

This essay pertains to Arthur Miller's "Death of a Salesman" and Tennessee Williams' "The Glass Menagerie" and how each play hand...

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...

Death of a Salesman and the Definition of Tragedy

by some serious flaw of character and/or judgment," with the ultimate goal being to inspire either pity or fear in the audience (K...

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" (...

Family's Need to Earn More Money

trapped. Our era has prompted most to believe that yesterdays luxuries are indeed todays necessities. By way of two acclaimed l...

Arthur Miller's Influences for Death of a Salesman

In a paper consisting of six pages the influential factors that resulted in Arthur Miller's composition of the Pulitzer prize winn...

American Dream of Willy Loman in Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman

Prize as well as the New York Drama Critics Circle Award when it was produced and published in 1949....

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...

Accidental Infidel Willy Loman in Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman

Due to the power structures that already exist in a battering relationship, confronting marital infidelity is likely to lead to fu...

Classification of a Tragic Hero and Willy Loman in Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman

In five pages this research paper discusses the tragic hero classification as applied to Arthur Miller's Willy Loman common man pr...

The View from a Bridge by Arthur Miller

In five pages this paper examines the tragedy of the protagonist's failure to face his own feelings as portrayed in Arthur Miller'...

Willy Loman's Nightmarish American Dreams

"Happy" The irony of the situation is doubled by the shadow (and what is the shadow of a dream,...

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...

American Literary Symbolism

353). Symbols present another layer to a story, as well as another realm for questioning. Who or what is "Young Goodman Brown" t...

Performance Art and Autobiography

In five pages the aspects of autobiography as they manifest themselves in performance art are considered in a discussion of Holly ...

The Element of Tragedy as Presented in Literature

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 ...

Death of a Salesman and Family Values

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 ...

Tragic Hero Assessment of John Proctor as Portrayed in the 1996 Film Version of Arthur Miller's The Crucible

In five pages this character analysis of John Proctor and whether or not he was portrayed as a tragic hero in Arthur Miller's 1996...

Analysis of the Death of a Salesman Film

He is someone who today would appear on the Jerry Springer Show. His life had always been dysfunctional and all he ever wanted was...