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

of Willys character shows him to be a highly flawed man, who makes innumerable mistakes and brings about his own tragic demise by ...

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...

strikingly beautiful girl, an orphan, with an endless capacity for dissembling" (Miller, 1959, p. 487). She is convinced that she ...

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...

as a witch. As the play progresses, suspicion grows on all sides, until the only way to stop the madness is for John to tell the ...

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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 love with him. They work out a plan where they can be alone together for an entire evening, making love and doing what they w...

shoeshine ... A salesman is got to dream, boy," says Charley, a friend of the family. Willy sees the image of himself coming apart...

condition involves the paradoxical feeling on the part of the spectator that what has happened could not have happened otherwise, ...

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...

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...

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

His fathers expectations of him are something that Biff knows he can never fulfill, therefore, he becomes critical of himself when...

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

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...

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...

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...

Loman has limited intelligence or at least that seems to be the case; the point is arguable however. The story itself, as origin...

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