Arthur Miller’s classic screenplay Death of a Salesman‚ tells the life of the Loman family through a complex and anachronistic story that reveals the family member’s struggles with individualism and purpose. The protagonist of the story‚ an aging salesman named Willy Loman‚ has grown delusional after years of personal financial stagnation. As a younger salesman‚ Willy claims that he possessed talent and had many connections throughout New England‚ but in his old age his network of friendships has
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Intro: Morning… The death of salesman comes to an end when Willy loman commits suicide‚ who is to blame for Willy’s destruction? Willy is to blame for his destruction by the way he lives his life in denial and with arrogance‚ the arrogance and jealousy inside Willly brings him down in the play. The American dream that Willy chases is also to blame but its Willy who decides to follow this lifestyle‚ which only leads him to guilt and depression. The play teaches us about an individual that leads
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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 a person
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Salesman is Willy Loman. He is an old salesman who lives in world build up of illusions and memories. His life is based on dreams which never come true. Willy is trying to accomplish the American Dream‚ but in his dream accomplishment successes of his sons‚ Biff and Happy‚ do not exist. Loman’s receipt for wealth is personal attractiveness and well likeness‚ unfortunately he never achieve these receipts. During his life he follows his dream‚ but when things go wrong he fools everybody
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family issue that is prevalent in America today. In Death of a Salesman‚ Willy exclaims‚ “How can he find himself on a farm? Is that a life? A farmhand? In the beginning‚ when he was young‚ I thought‚ well‚ a young man‚ it’s good for him to tramp around‚ take a lot of different jobs. But it’s more than ten years now and he has yet to make thirty-five dollars a week!” (1296) This gives you some insight on the pressure that Willy is putting on his children to be successful and become something in life
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Lopez Prof. English 103 December 3‚ 2012 Death of a Salesman: Willy Loman‚ the Overbearing Father The Loman way‚ was it the hard way or the correct way? In Death of a Salesman‚ the main character‚ Willy Loman is a traveling salesman and is living his own version of the American Dream. He travels the northeast region of America‚ through numerous towns and hotels to support his family. His wife Linda and his two sons‚ Biff and Harold aka Happy‚ live in their home in Brooklyn‚ New York
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character Willy Loman and also his conflict with his son Biff. Miller explores this concern through the dialogue of these characters and how they interact and perceive themselves in front of others. The nature of Willy’s own conflict is much to-do with his own self deceit. Through his own denial and teachings that he has passed on to Biff – there is more conflict as Biff tries to make his father see past his own lies and forces him to realise what he (Biff) really is. I personally feel that Willy and Biffs
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several components to a tragic hero: the character must be noble or portray greatness‚ have a tragic flaw that causes his downfall‚ and the character must instill pity and fear into the audience. Two such tragic heroes in modern literature are‚ Willy Loman and Troy Maxson. The first characteristic that qualifies these two characters as tragic heroes is the portrayal of nobility or greatness. Aristotle believed that the hero must be noble or of a higher type‚ but to relate to the audience he
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of both families who assert and express their masculinity in quite dissimilar ways. Referring to the screen adaptations of both plays‚ Stanley Kowalski is a strong‚ aggressive and forthright individual whereas Willy Loman through stature as well as speech is a bumbling‚ weak and nervous fool‚ driven by his own delusions. As well as through the male protagonists‚ the construction of masculinity occurs through the women of the play‚ and how they act towards the men in both productions‚ as stated through
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Miller’s musical themes express the competing influences in Willy Loman’s mind. Once established‚ the themes need only be sounded to evoke certain time frames‚ emotions‚ and values. The first sounds of the drama‚ the flute notes "small and fine‚" represent the grass‚ trees‚ and horizon - objects of Willy’s (and Biff’s) longing that are tellingly absent from the overshadowed home on which the curtain rises. This melody plays on as Willy makes his first appearance‚ although‚ as Miller tells us
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