play‚ including alienation‚ disorder‚ suffering‚ procrastination and the portrayal of the ‘tragic victim’. Miller embodies these and more aspects in the characters of “The Woman”‚ Happy’s many alleged women‚ and the protagonist Willy Loman’s wife‚ Linda. Willy’s affair in Boston‚ revealed to the audience through Miller’s use of what he called ‘mobile concurrence’ could highlight the idea of female liberation‚ as the woman claims to have “picked” Willy‚ giving
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costly conclusions (2007). Personal barriers which could impede clear thinking consist of enculturation‚ religion‚ self-concept‚ ego defenses (denial‚ projection‚ rationalization)‚ self-serving biases‚ role of expectations‚ emotional influences (anger‚ passion‚ depression)‚ and stress (Kirby and Goodpaster‚ 2007). Even though personal barriers come into play‚ the more one engages in self-reflection and becomes aware of the biases and limitations‚ overcoming the personal barriers will result in positive
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order to survive daily in their own life is drastic for the most part. Two characters that exemplify very obvious survival techniques are the main character Linda and her maternal grandmother. Linda’s grandmother‚ though mentioned briefly in the novel’s beginning‚ has a very important role in the novel as a whole as she appears later to help Linda in her own personal quest. She is a locally famous baker known for her crackers‚ and she used this to earn quite a decent sum of money and the promise of
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the protagonist of the play‚ is used as an example to show that once you lie‚ everything goes downhill. Willy is a salesman‚ that travels to far cities away from his house to make people interested in his supplies. In the opening scene‚ he tells Linda‚ his wife‚ that he is exhausted from driving far away from home. Willy‚ then continuously talks about how he is a vital asset to the company‚ yet they have him doing the same thing for the past thirty plus years. Once his son Biff is introduced Willy
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their appearance. Bitter in the Mouth captures the life of Linda Hammerick growing up in the tightly knit community
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past child birth. James and Anne had a great relationship together‚ even though James was allegedly bi-sexual. These allegations occurred soon after his somewhat intimate relationship with Esme Stuart‚ whom James crowned Duke of Lennox. According to Linda Bruce‚ these two men had a public homosexual relationship with each other. Despite these rumors‚ Anne and James continued to live their life‚ as a happily married
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wastefulness of war. Without Bowker‚ O’Brein could have ended up like him. He helped him understand that he can get out and speak what he has to take off of his shoulders‚ by writing about it. These feelings are not directed out toward the world as anger‚ but instead are turned in upon him‚ and they become self-loathing and extreme survivor guilt. The Bowker character is most essential to the novel as fodder about which O’Brien creates a fictional story. He asks
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immediately. He faces a dilemma of whether to send the fax as Linda tells him to do or not to commit Linda’s command. If he sends the fax‚ he will violate business ethics and his personal religion ethics. The consequences may involve both the loss of Sam’s personal moral prestige and the collapse of FirstAmerica’s corporate reputation among the financial industry. If he doesn’t send the fax‚ he will disobey his direct superior Linda with risk of ending his career in FirstAmerica or the whole financial
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In Harriet Jacob’s novel‚ Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl‚ Linda Brent (pseudonym for Jacobs) flees the prison of slavery under Dr. Flint’s authority‚ only to be trapped in a new‚ more physically constraining cage: the crawl space of a shed outside her grandmother’s house. For seven years‚ she remains here trapped like a bird in the cage‚ a precursor to the empty cage and free bird image‚ “The Pretty Robin”‚ that Ginsberg describes in her essay “Of Babies‚ Beasts‚ and Bondage” (86‚ 88). The
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Life of a Slave Girl‚” Jacobs depicts herself by the name of Linda Brent
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