Death of a Salesman
GE Yang
Kelly Donohue
English 1022.13
4 February 2013
A Tragedy Life I have read Death of a Salesman – the play that was wrote by Arthur Miller, and I have found out that many people have responded differently toward it. Some viewed it as a comedy play, some viewed as a tragedy, and some viewed it as a psychological study. For my personally opinion, I view it as a tragedy play. Why was it a tragedy? To answer this question, let’s have a quick review on the definition of tragedy. tragedy is defines as a drama or literary work in which the main character is brought to ruin or suffers extreme sorrow, especially as a consequence of a tragic flaw, moral weakness, or inability to cope with unfavorable circumstances. Furthermore, tragedy has a sad ending. Base on this definition, death of a salesman is perfectly fixed in to a tragedy play; especially Willy Loman – the salesman’s life. Let’s start by looking at the tragic flaws of Willy First. Willy thought that he has no tragic flaw, but he does have many. Willy is failing to know who he really is. He puts all his life to a salesman and believes that he is a great salesman while he forgot that his great ability is something else. His ability was fixing thing with his hand or in other word, he is good with his hand. He have been fixing thing with his hand, but he never thinks of doing something base on what he was good as. He on the other hand, chooses to be a salesman instead and believes that salesman is the best for him. I remember Biff says to Charley at the end that Willy didn’t know who he was. Biff furthermore; says to charley that there is more of Willy in front stoops than in all the sales that Willy ever made. This is his greatest failure because salesman is not for him. If he take a risk and work on what he good as then he might has been as successful as his brother Ben. Willy Furthermore fails to realize the true feeling that people are feeling toward him. Willy has an extremely high view of himself.
Kelly Donohue
English 1022.13
4 February 2013
A Tragedy Life I have read Death of a Salesman – the play that was wrote by Arthur Miller, and I have found out that many people have responded differently toward it. Some viewed it as a comedy play, some viewed as a tragedy, and some viewed it as a psychological study. For my personally opinion, I view it as a tragedy play. Why was it a tragedy? To answer this question, let’s have a quick review on the definition of tragedy. tragedy is defines as a drama or literary work in which the main character is brought to ruin or suffers extreme sorrow, especially as a consequence of a tragic flaw, moral weakness, or inability to cope with unfavorable circumstances. Furthermore, tragedy has a sad ending. Base on this definition, death of a salesman is perfectly fixed in to a tragedy play; especially Willy Loman – the salesman’s life. Let’s start by looking at the tragic flaws of Willy First. Willy thought that he has no tragic flaw, but he does have many. Willy is failing to know who he really is. He puts all his life to a salesman and believes that he is a great salesman while he forgot that his great ability is something else. His ability was fixing thing with his hand or in other word, he is good with his hand. He have been fixing thing with his hand, but he never thinks of doing something base on what he was good as. He on the other hand, chooses to be a salesman instead and believes that salesman is the best for him. I remember Biff says to Charley at the end that Willy didn’t know who he was. Biff furthermore; says to charley that there is more of Willy in front stoops than in all the sales that Willy ever made. This is his greatest failure because salesman is not for him. If he take a risk and work on what he good as then he might has been as successful as his brother Ben. Willy Furthermore fails to realize the true feeling that people are feeling toward him. Willy has an extremely high view of himself.