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    Act 1‚ Scene 1 Miller begins his play with a bedtime dialogue between Willy and his wife‚ Linda.  Willy‚ an aging salesman‚ has just returned late from a business trip.  Linda is very concerned‚ asking her husband if he had a car accident.  Willy tiredly explains that indeed he did have a close call with his car‚ veering off the road on two occasionswhile enjoying the scenery.  Though at first Linda thinks that it’s a problem with the vehicle‚ eventually she attributes Willy’s driving problems to

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    Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman depicts one man’s tragic life and death as he tries to free and unmerited favor of God into his family. While reading Death of a Salesman from a Psychological stand point allows you to see the struggle and the downfall of one man’s fight trying to be very successful but also fail at being successful. Many of us wonder if Willy committing suicide is actually his own fault. Willy is confused by a system that drives its men into a frantic scare when it comes to

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    where the road signs lead. The road to self-discovery is found by following one ’s heart and mind and to wherever they may lead them. Within the plays Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller‚ and Our Town by Thornton Wilder‚ parallel pathways and contrary connections can be established between the characters coinciding in both. In Death of a Salesman‚ Willy Loman is the portrait of a sixty year old man reflecting upon his past‚ one of lies and hopelessness. Upon coming about his past‚ he finally and

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    Death of a Salesman is a tragic play by Arthur Miller‚ about a sixty-four year old traveling salesman who is struggling to earn money and is very hung over about being “well liked” and to him that is the most important thing to be because it will lead to success. He has two sons and that have very high standards for him so they try to live up to them. Willy is always reliving the past‚ he is depressed with his life because he feels like he’s never done anything with it and was never successful so

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    Biff is one of the most troubled characters in Death of a Salesman‚ along with his father Willy. Whilst the Play mainly focuses on the tragedy surrounding the decline and death of his father‚ Biff’s story is arguably also a tragedy: going from having everything he could possibly want‚ with many universities interested in Biff‚ people throughout his school looking up to him as a role model‚ and generally his life being good to being sent to jail‚ moving from one low pay job to another‚ and finding

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    Two different men‚ with one shared dream‚ and both of which have different outcomes. In the plays‚ A Raisin in the Sun by Arthur Miller and Death of a Salesman by Lorraine Hansberry‚ the two major characters‚ Walter and Willy are important people with similar personal struggles and a shared dream of making it rich. The characters have similar struggles‚ with the outcome of them pursuing their dreams ending similarly. The characters of Walter and Willy have many common characteristics. Both Willy

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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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    THE FALL OF TWO GREAT MEN - KING LEAR AND DEATH OF A SALESMAN COMPARATIVE ESSAY In many stories‚ the role of protagonist is to endure hardship and losses but regardless‚ the resolution in these stories tends to be a happy ending. However‚ some writers such as William Shakespeare and Arthur Miller prefer more tragic endings for their protagonists. Although the protagonists enjoy a happy life in the beginning of both King Lear and Death of a Salesman‚ we quickly see their uprising hardship‚ loss

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    outside of literature: in the lives of people. The morals and values of an individual influence the actions he takes. In Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman‚ Miller utilizes flashbacks‚ symbols‚ and characterization to show that Willy and Biff’s morality is represented by actions of lies‚ hypocrisy‚ and succumbing to society. The flashbacks in Death of a Salesman create a buffer between Willy’s past and present actions as well as how his morals evolve and influence those actions. Willy does not know

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    Throughout out the novels‚ The Great Gatsby and Death of a Salesman‚ characters display the theme of the American Dream. Jay Gatsby and Willy Loman both share similarities along with differences in their view of the American Dream. The American Dream not only influences these characters beliefs‚ but also their motives‚ choices‚ and behavior. Both characters in the novel were both motivated by the ones that around them that influenced their idea of the American Dream. Gatsby can be described

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