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    especially sons‚ consider their fathers’ legacy as a legend and dream to follow fathers’ footsteps. A son’s future depends on the role of the father‚ and it is so important that their family’s faith depend on their relationship. Arthur Miller’s “Death of a Salesman” consists of endless father-son conflicts due to the fact that Willy‚ an oppressive father‚ has high‚ unattainable expectations for his son Biff; while he appears to have virtually no relationship with his youngest son‚ Happy. Willy refuses

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    In the play‚ Death of a Salesman‚ by Arthur Miller‚ there are a number of ways Willy Loman shows his version of the American Dream. The most obvious way is him thinking that any man who is manly‚ good looking‚ charismatic‚ and well-liked deserves success and will naturally achieve it. Willy Loman buys into the dream so thoroughly that he ignores the tangible things around him‚ such as the love of his family‚ and imposes this dream on his boys who become paralyzed by the falseness of it. In the end

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    I. Description of Main Characters A. Willy Loman 1. Willy Loman is an aging salesman who has had to work hard for everything in his life. Throughout the story we are given a look into the skewed reality he has created for himself as the story progresses. Unlike other tragic heroes‚ Willy is unable to fully realize the situation he has been placed in. Even though he comes to a superficial understanding of himself and the sales profession‚ Willy is unable to see his own failure as

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    1. Many definitions of tragedy claim that at the end of the play positives have emerged. Is it possible to see anything positive in the ending of ’Death of a Salesman’? The play "Death of a Salesman" shows the final demise of Willy Loman‚ a sixty- year-old salesman in the America of the 1940’s‚ who has deluded himself all his life about being a big success in the business world. It also portrays his wife Linda‚ who "plays along" nicely with his lies and tells him what he wants to hear‚ out of

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    I do agree with Bradley that the ending of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn serves as part of Twain’s criticism of American society. The fact that Huck knew that Jim was a freed slave‚ and still allowed Jim to be chased‚ chained and recaptured‚ speaks to how truly indoctrinated Tom Sawyer was in Southern racist and elitist traditions. Tom waited to share that critical information about Jim until Tom had completed his adventure‚ at a substantial personal cost and risk to both Jim and Huck. Furthermore

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    The False Hope of the American Dream in Death of a Salesman The American Dream is something every American family strives to achieve some families push too hard to get to the place where they feel that they have achieved this dream; this is the case in the life of the Lomen family. The Lomen’s are the typical American family in the 1940’s. Willy and his wife Linda are a middle class family with two sons named Biff and Happy. Willy is an ageing traveling salesman that is struggling to

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    Miller’s “Death of a Salesman“ is a play illustrating the life of a man wanting success but takes his life for his family to be financially stable. At the story’s heart is a tragic depiction of the protagonist‚ a man who wants to be successful‚ who wants his kids to be successful‚ he wants to live the American dream. Miller balances the literary devices of of flashbacks‚ motifs‚ conflicts and characterization to perceive the cost of the American Dream. Willy Loman’s idea of the American dream is

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    about the rules that he had to obey. Father Dowling has a big role and is very important in his catholic community as a priest that by him paying more attention to the girls and spending a lot of hours with them is disrespectful to the catholic society due to the lack of attention by the priest to the church. The

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    Arthur Millers play “Death of a Salesman” is a well-recognized drama‚ yet it has been controversial due to the ethnicity of the actors performing it. Critic John Lahr believed that Millers play “Death of a Salesman” could not be preformed by black actors. This is a play with universal themes‚ such as the “American Dream”‚ but the American Dream was different for African Americans back then‚ than what it is today in modern society. In the Hard Sell “A black Death of a Salesman” August Wilson argues

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    Fences / Death of a Salesman August Wilson’s Fences depicts the life of a former Negro League baseball player turned sanitation worker Troy Maxson and the relationships he has with the people around him. Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman mainly focuses on the tragically unsuccessful life of Willy Loman and the impact he has on his family. In this essay I will examine these characters and their impacts on their loved ones. In the story Fences‚ Troy Maxson exemplifies an African American subjected

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