generation z
Generation Lay-Z
Arthur Miller’s most famous play, Death of a salesman, was published in 1949. The Broadway premiere was February 10, 1949.The setting takes place in New York and Boston in 1948. Willy Loman, and old salesman, returns home from a business trip .He returned from his business trip early because he was going off the road while he was driving. His wife Linda suggest to Willy that maybe being on the road isn’t safe for him, and that he should ask his boss ,Howard, for a local office job. Despite Willy’s problems at his work he has two other problems at home ,Biff and Happy. Willy starts to have these dreams where he starts talking really loud in his dreams. One night his whole family wakes up. Linda his wife confronts to the boys that they are struggling financially. In response Biff makes the decision to meet with his former employer Bill Oliver to ask for a business loan. The family goes to sleep thinking that tomorrow will be the day when the family will fulfill their dreams. The next day Willy, Biff, and Happy will meet at a restaurant to discuss the good news, but everything goes wrong. Willy instead of getting the job he gets fired. Biff instead of getting the loan he ends up not seeing Bill Oliver and ends up stealing his fountain pen. Willy takes this news really hard and decides that the best decision for him is to commit suicide so that Biff can use his insurance money to start his own business. Biff, Happy and Linda will be left with the life insurance money. Biff is Willy Lomans oldest son the, sun that he is crazy about. Biff in high school was a big shot in high school. He was the star football player had scholarships but could take them because he failed his last semester of math. That credit was what was holding him back from being successful. Biff tried to go to summer school but ended up dropping out do to him finding his dad cheating on his mom made him go crazy. So Biff never ended up graduating high school. Because of this Biff
Arthur Miller’s most famous play, Death of a salesman, was published in 1949. The Broadway premiere was February 10, 1949.The setting takes place in New York and Boston in 1948. Willy Loman, and old salesman, returns home from a business trip .He returned from his business trip early because he was going off the road while he was driving. His wife Linda suggest to Willy that maybe being on the road isn’t safe for him, and that he should ask his boss ,Howard, for a local office job. Despite Willy’s problems at his work he has two other problems at home ,Biff and Happy. Willy starts to have these dreams where he starts talking really loud in his dreams. One night his whole family wakes up. Linda his wife confronts to the boys that they are struggling financially. In response Biff makes the decision to meet with his former employer Bill Oliver to ask for a business loan. The family goes to sleep thinking that tomorrow will be the day when the family will fulfill their dreams. The next day Willy, Biff, and Happy will meet at a restaurant to discuss the good news, but everything goes wrong. Willy instead of getting the job he gets fired. Biff instead of getting the loan he ends up not seeing Bill Oliver and ends up stealing his fountain pen. Willy takes this news really hard and decides that the best decision for him is to commit suicide so that Biff can use his insurance money to start his own business. Biff, Happy and Linda will be left with the life insurance money. Biff is Willy Lomans oldest son the, sun that he is crazy about. Biff in high school was a big shot in high school. He was the star football player had scholarships but could take them because he failed his last semester of math. That credit was what was holding him back from being successful. Biff tried to go to summer school but ended up dropping out do to him finding his dad cheating on his mom made him go crazy. So Biff never ended up graduating high school. Because of this Biff
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