Death Of A Salesman Literary Analysis Essay
In this literary analysis piece I will be breaking down the popular play by Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman. Death of a Salesman, is a very riveting story that follows Willy Loman, a retiree-aged working class business man living in New York. Who deals with troublesome denial, and uses the events of the past to deal with his problems of the present, this begins to create more problems for Willy as he becomes unable to separate past events with current events. Along with intense financial strain as an ageing business man in a new era of business. Willy feels pressured to be very financially successful and well liked person by himself, and the people around him like his brother, Ben, and his neighbor, Charley, who has a very successful son who is a lawyer. Willy, along with many people in the real world, suffers
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A major reason for this kind of thinking is that many people think they will never be caught or will not face any serious repercussions. Willy finds out the hard way how something like cheating can severely affect a family. Biff, one day finds out that Willy has been cheating on his mom, this causes him to have deep resent towards his father, and begins to doubt everything he tells him. The reader later catches Willy in another lie, this time to his brother Ben saying, “Business is bad, it’s murderous. But not for me, of course.” (1690). Even though earlier in the story he tells Linda about his financial difficulties, and our knowledge of Willy having to borrow money from Bernard. Biff seems to be the only one aware of the Loman’s dishonorable ways. In Act 2 of Death of a Salesman, Biff tries to convey to his family that he will no longer be a part of their lying household; after finding out that Willy deceived him into believing that he had a higher position at a job than he really did, when he was a
A major reason for this kind of thinking is that many people think they will never be caught or will not face any serious repercussions. Willy finds out the hard way how something like cheating can severely affect a family. Biff, one day finds out that Willy has been cheating on his mom, this causes him to have deep resent towards his father, and begins to doubt everything he tells him. The reader later catches Willy in another lie, this time to his brother Ben saying, “Business is bad, it’s murderous. But not for me, of course.” (1690). Even though earlier in the story he tells Linda about his financial difficulties, and our knowledge of Willy having to borrow money from Bernard. Biff seems to be the only one aware of the Loman’s dishonorable ways. In Act 2 of Death of a Salesman, Biff tries to convey to his family that he will no longer be a part of their lying household; after finding out that Willy deceived him into believing that he had a higher position at a job than he really did, when he was a