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    Death of a Salesman In the passage of the story “Death of a Salesman” written by Arthur Miller‚ the author manages to create an unfair situation for Willy Lowman by showing how Howard humiliates him in the whole conversation. Also‚ by showing Howard is not interested at Willy situation at all. In addition to this‚ by using stage directions and exclamation marks the writer creates a tense atmosphere which contributes to an unfair situation. To start with‚ Howard fires Willy in a really unfair way

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    The character‚ Willy Loman in the play Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller was full of flaws. Willy looked up to his older brother‚ Ben. Ben tells young Biff and Happy “when I was seventeen I walked into the jungle‚ and when I was twenty-one I walked out. And by God I was rich” (Miller 1298) Loman admire his older brother because he made money. He tried too hard to be rich. When Biff and Happy tell their father about the Loman Brothers idea‚ Willy calls it a “one-million-dollar idea!” Willy real

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    In Author Miller’s play‚ Death of a Salesman‚ there is a reoccurring topic of the “American Dream”. Willy‚ a traveling salesman‚ constantly desires to live his idea of the American dream. Willy not only desires to live the American dream‚ but he also wants the same happiness for his wife‚ Linda‚ and his son’s Biff and Happy. The reality for Willy‚ however‚ is that the more he reaches for the American dream‚ the further back he pushes himself and his family. Like most‚ Willy’s ideas of the American

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    allowed to vote‚ women have always had more of a struggle than men. Society has progressed‚ women are educated‚ and voting if they want to. There are still problems women face on a daily basis‚ such as unequal pay among the issues. The plays Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller‚ and Fences by August Wilson‚ the two playwrights investigate the role women had in 1950s America. The responsibilities these women had and their day to day lives helped shaped their families in many different ways. Miller and

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    Death of a Salesman Essay One must know the past to understand the present. In Arthur Miller’s “Death of a Salesman‚” the plot is set up in dramatic alternating scenes to demonstrate what happened in the past to explain what is happening in the present. With the use of the plot and characterization‚ Miller explores the idea that the past is inevitably going to repeat itself when people do not learn from their mistakes. Although Willy Loman desperately searches for answers in his past‚ he is unable

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    The "Great Gatsby" is essentially about the rise and fall of the American Dream‚ and what meaning that held for Gatsby. It is also about how the American Dream is seen by Gatsby‚ not to obtain something materialistic‚ money‚ but to reach a goal not in keeping at all with what the American Dream stands for. For him the American Dream is a vehicle toward his goal. The greatness of "Gatsby" can be explored through a variety of viewpoints. One can compare his successes and failures and then weigh them

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    "Death of a Dream" Any American is taught a dream that is purged of all truth. The American Dream is shown to the world as a belief that anyone can do anything; when in reality‚ life is filled with impossible boundaries. In the novel‚ The Great Gatsby‚ F. Scott Fitzgerald gives us a glimpse into the life of the upper class during the roaring twenties through the eyes of a moralistic young man named Nick Carraway. It is through the narrator’s dealings with the upper class that the reader is shown

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    presence of the American dream in the book "Death of a salesman" by Arthur Miller. It is a story about a man‚ Willy Loman‚ whose efforts to achieve this American dream went unrewarded‚ and because of this‚ he starts having a huge variety of problems with his family‚ friends and work. The way Americans wish to live their lives‚ is not achieved by every single person. This is clearly seen in Willy Loman‚ who is a man who worked all his life as a salesman‚ and never achieved anything in his life "

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    Death of a salesman Prompt number 1 In my personal opinion i believe the play death of a salesman the story has a tragic hero aka Willy loman because during the entire story willy was crashing down here is why. In the beginning willy returns home from a long day of work he get greeted by his wife in panic checking him to make sure that he is alright then once she was done checking she asked where was he and where has he been and he replies that he was in yonkers and he stopped for a cup of coffee

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    Turgenev). For many famous writers the significance of fathers’ influence on their children forms a subject of particular interest. . In the play‚ Death of a Salesman‚ Arthur Miller shows in a very striking manner that the father’s influence can be either positive or fatal. The dispiriting story of the three generations of the Lomans family contrasts with the happy account of the life of their neighbors‚ Charley and his son Bernard. The author details father-and-son relations in the Lomans family

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