Today’s society really only teaches one rule in life growing up; respect people the way you want to be respected. And in Miller’s play he shows this through the characters. In Arthur Miller’s play‚ Death of a Salesman‚ Linda’s speech suggests that people usually let their pride get the best of them instead of actually caring about what is needed most; the respect from family and friends. When Biff‚ Happy and Linda are arguing about who Willy really is as a person‚ Biff tells Linda‚ “Stop making excuses
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In the story Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller the character Biff asserts to his family that “we never told the truth for ten minutes in this house” which is completely true. The Loman family is constantly lying and making an array of different excuses in order to escape the truth that they are just a “dime in a dozen.” Happy may only have a few lines yet most‚ if not all‚ of them are lies. Happy is constantly claiming “I’m getting married” yet it is clear to the reading audience that he is
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Death of a Salesman: Choose a play which explores the themes of self awareness: Miller makes clear that Biff is very unsettled and had not yet pursued in any form of career. This is demonstrated in the dialogue in which Willy is complaining to Linda that Biff has not amounted to anything. "Linda: He’s finding himself Willy." And Willy replies angrily: "Not finding yourself at the age of thirty four is a disgrace." The audience can see straight away that Biff has not matched up to his fathers
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Willy’s issues with repression are consistently displayed in "Death of a Salesman". Willy represses recollections of poor times to when he was more delighted with his family. Moreover‚ Willy represses past choices and decisions that could have made his family more jubilant such as when he passed up a venture to Alaska with his brother to visit a diamond mine in which his brother gained a vast amount of riches from. Furthermore‚ Willy says many times that he had done well with his sales deals‚ however
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Welty and White: Childhood Innocence The words and descriptions that an author uses are to provoke a response in the reader. They are not just telling a story but are trying to show the reader their vision. In this case it is the vision and remembrance of the past and how it shaped their perceptions of the world. Eudora Welty’s “The Little Store” is about the innocence and simplicity of childhood‚ which she shows by her description of the neighborhood she grew up in and the trips to the store
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based on annual income figures. This means that 36.5 million people just in America either were unemployed or lived off food stamps or were unable to get a full time job. It is very difficult to live like this‚ as the nation saw illustrated in “Death of a Salesman” by Arthur Miller. Willy Loman‚ the protagonist‚ struggled with finances and couldn’t live a standard life. Without money‚ he couldn’t pay his household necessities like the refrigerator and this caused him great stress‚ which then led to bad
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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 accept
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Eudora Welty’s writing style and us of theme and setting aided her in becoming one of the greatest writers of all time. Welty credits her family for her success. ’Without the love and belief my family gave me‚ I could not have become a writer to begin with’ (Welty‚ IX). Eudora Welty’s writings are light-hearted and realistic. Her stories explore common everyday life. Eudora Welty was born in Jackson‚ Mississippi‚ on April 13‚ 1909. She was an observant child. She was fascinated by sounds and sights
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Death Of a Salesman Arthur Miller does manage to engage our sympathies with Willy in the first act of the play to a certain extent. He does this in many ways such as using Willy’s speech‚ his troubled mind‚ the way other characters treat him and by using themes like the past. To begin with‚ Willy Loman seems like a normal‚ yet exhausted businessman. This is until he starts to contradict himself by saying of Biff that he’s “a lazy bum!” A few seconds later in the scene‚ his line is “There’s
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What would it be like to have no personal identity? Human nature is fundamentally oriented toward self-acceptatance and self-understanding. Without these‚ one feels inadequate and lost. This is certainly the case for poor Biff Loman in “Death of a Salesman‚” because Biff’s father Willy simply cannot accept him. Biff is forced to be someone he is not for so long that he loses his true self altogether. As a result‚ he falls into a despair he cannot understand the genesis of. Additionally‚ Willy
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