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

brother, his time away from home when he worked on ranches where he states, "theres nothing more inspiring or-beautiful than the s...

soreness of his palms...then carries his case out into the living-room...Im tired to death" he tells his wife (Miller 12-13). Hi...

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" (...

may very well lie in the study of some of the most earliest of heroes from the texts of Homer and Plato. By far one of the most en...

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...

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

plague wreaks death and despair onto the Theban people, Oedipus pride motivates him to make a deal whereby he reveals the identity...

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...

audience" (66). The reversal refers to a reversal in fortune, which Aristotle believed was classically represented in a fall from...

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

on the socioeconomic totem pole. He has faced personal and professional adversity much of his life. He feels inferior to his old...

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...

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

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

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

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

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...

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...

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...

the span of a day comes face-to-face with the realization that the American Dream has become a nightmare of his own making, that t...

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...

for the taking, he can carry on - he can endure the countless humiliations of having his territory dwindle to a small region in Ne...

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...