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Death of a Salesman
If you were to use the scene in Act II in which Willy Loman talks to Howard about Dave Singleman, Willy's ideal of the successful salesman and the man he hoped to be like, it might be best to have...
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Death of a Salesman
I would say that Death of a Salesman's most important theme is to be true to yourself and work to develop what you are good at and drawn to, rather than trying to get rich quickly. Willy Loman buys...
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Death of a Salesman
Since you do not state which version of the play you are using, I will answer your question by listing all the main events in Act Two. Willy is to meet Biff and Happy at Frank's Chop House for...
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Death of a Salesman
Plot development is when the author adds necessary details to either the setting, plot, or characters in order to advance the story and keep the audience compelled. 1. Willy Loman expresses to his...
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Death of a Salesman
In Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman, Willy Loman's failures are a product of his unrealistic vision of what his life is and could be and what his sons' lives could be. Led by their father, Biff...
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Death of a Salesman
Willy Loman lives in New York City. According to the brief paragraph preceding Act One: The action takes place in Willy Loman's house and yard and in various places he visits in the New York and...
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Death of a Salesman
In Death of a Salesman the expectations of two particular parents, Willy Loman and his neighbor Charley, seem to definitely make a difference in the outcome of their children. In Willy Loman's...
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Death of a Salesman
In Death of a Salesman, Willy's elder son Biff is uncertain, insecure, and haunted by struggles with his father's expectations. As a child, Biff's parents believed he had more potential than his...
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Death of a Salesman
The first act of the play "Death of a Salesman" introduces the Loman family. Willy Loman, the main character, is a traveling salesman; his adult sons, Happy and Biff, are visiting him and his wife...
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Death of a Salesman
The real tragedy with the Loman family in Death of a Salesman is a combination of lack of action, aptitude and attitude to attain the superbly high goals that the men of the family set for...
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Death of a Salesman
Willy misses the point and confuses "being loved" with being "well-liked" as it is evidenced in the fact that he takes almost for granted the love of his wife, Linda, and seems more eager to please...
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Literature
Miller originally titled his play The Inside of his Head, suggesting much of the story would be about Willy Loman's illusions. To indicate the parts of the action that take place in the present...
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Death of a Salesman
Salesmanship is the act and ability to convince potential customers to purchase items. The better the salesperson, the more salesmanship he or she will display. The key to salesmanship is not just...
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Death of a Salesman
One of the major conflicts that Willy Loman faces in Death of a Salesman is his conflict with society, which arguably springs from his own conflict with himself. As his issues with himself develop,...
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Death of a Salesman
Willy's inner conflict was, essentially, his fantasy world versus his reality. It is evident in more than just the constant hallucinations that he suffers throughout the play. Throughout his life,...
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Death of a Salesman
Linda's character definitely reads more like a devout wife than a sacrificed parent. If anything, she is more of a mother and caretaker to her own husband than she is to Biff and Happy. Linda has a...
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Death of a Salesman
The love/hate relationship between Willy and Biff stems from three events that changed the perception that the men had of one another: uncovering who each of them really is ending their sham...
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Death of a Salesman
In Death of a Salesman, Willy Loman constantly indulges in illusions rather than face reality. For example, he imagines that his son, Biff, can become a successful salesman if Biff only applies...
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Death of a Salesman
In Act Two of Death of a Salesman, Willy comes Charley's office to borrow more money and runs into Charley's son Bernard, who is now a lawyer and on his way to Washington, D.C. As Bernard is about...
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Death of a Salesman
Many of the themes of Death of a Salesman absolutely resonate in the cultural, political, and workplace climate of 2016. For example, Willy is devoted to the American Dream, the idea that a man can...
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Death of a Salesman
In the stage directions at the beginning of the play, Miller specifies that "a silver athletic trophy" stands on a shelf above Willy's bed. The color specified for the trophy has several possible...
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Death of a Salesman
In Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman, Willy Loman can't grow plants from seeds because he has an inability to succeed. Throughout the play, Willy tries to be successful at the things he does...
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Death of a Salesman
Most of Willy's fear of abandonment comes through in the scenes where he has imaginary conversations with his brother, Ben, who is a father figure but who also abandoned him when he was young. In...
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Death of a Salesman
In the restaurant scene, Biff and Happy are supposed to be meeting Willy and Biff is supposed to report on his visit to Bill Oliver to ask for a loan. Happy gets to the restaurant first, and Biff...
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Of Mice and Men
Both John Steinbeck's novella Of Mice and Men and Arthur Miller's play The Death of a Salesman feature strong, cynical representations of the American Dream. More specifically, many scholars'...
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Death of a Salesman
Death of a Salesman is about success or failure in the pursuit of the American Dream. The American Dream arose among immigrants who initially went to America to escape oppressive or difficult...
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Death of a Salesman
"The woman" is a woman in Boston who Willy had an affair with when he was a travelling salesman and his sons were in high school. Read more on "the woman" on eNotes here. In the play, Willy's...
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Death of a Salesman
Arthur Miller and his collaborators closely worked together to reveal the evolving problems that were resulting from American mass culture in the 40s and 50s. Narratively, Miller's play works to...
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Death of a Salesman
The main theme of Death of a Salesman is the pursuit of the American Dream. Willy constantly struggles with wanting to appear successful to himself and others. According to the American Dream,...
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Death of a Salesman
Willy and Linda's marriage is troubling to examine. In many ways, it reflects the stereotypical 1950s marriage, with Willy having a public life outside the home and the responsibility for earning...
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Death of a Salesman
In Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman, one of the main themes is illusion versus reality. Willy Loman has difficulty differentiating these two things (illusion and reality). One example is how,...
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Death of a Salesman
The play centers around the tragic and frustrating death of the salesman Willy Loman. As a person who believed aggressively and relentlessly in the American dream of pulling oneself up through...
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Death of a Salesman
For the conflict of the work to have been resolved in an effective manner and for Willy's suicide to have been prevented, a possible solution would have been for all the people in Willy's life who...
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Death of a Salesman
One could say that Biff is the main character in Death of a Salesman because, of all the characters, he drives the action, past and present, and he alone changes as a result of the events of the...
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Death of a Salesman
In Death of a Salesman, the relationship between Willy and his sons Biff and Happy is fairly contentious because Willy has imposed a set of impossible standards on his sons. When the boys were in...
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Death of a Salesman
In Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman, Willy Loman commits suicide in the end because he has lost all hope. He has spent a lifetime trying to be a successful salesman who is well-liked. However,...
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Death of a Salesman
Death of a Salesman is not a Greek Tragedy, according to Aristotle. Basically, a Greek tragedy is about a prosperous, renowned character bringing about his own downfall through a fatal flaw. Willy...
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Death of a Salesman
In Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman, Willy has parenting skills that are similar to his life skills. He treats both of his sons with blind optimism that they can do anything they want, ignoring...
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Death of a Salesman
Willie Loman has no one but himself to blame for his failure to achieve his dreams. Although he has had difficulties in his life that make it hard for him to get ahead, his own character flaws...
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Death of a Salesman
Willy stopped for a cup of coffee a little above Yonkers, a suburban city which is only about two miles north of Manhattan. Willy's territory is all of New England, so he was just barely getting...
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Death of a Salesman
At the end of Death of a Salesman, Willy Loman, the main character throughout the story, commits suicide in an automobile accident and dies. Willy commits this act to allow his family to cash in on...
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Literature
In Death of a Salesman, Willy Loman (get it? "low man"?) exemplifies the American Dream of getting out of poverty by pulling yourself up by your own bootstraps. A career in sales was hailed as the...
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Death of a Salesman
In Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman, Willy is a complex character. At the start of the play, Willy is optimistic and hopeful. Although he is getting older and is having difficulty remembering...
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Death of a Salesman
This question is not answered in the play. Evidently the author did not consider it important. Or perhaps he considered it important not to specify what it was that Willy Loman was selling, because...
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Death of a Salesman
Biff and Willy both look to each other for inspiration. This, I believe, remains true for Biff even after he becomes disillusioned with his father after discovering Willy's infidelity in Boston....
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Death of a Salesman
In Act One, Happy and Biff plan to open a sporting goods business. Happy came up with the idea the last time he was in Florida. He explains it to his parents, as follows: "We form two basketball...
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Death of a Salesman
I wouldn't call Willy an anti-hero. While there is some ambiguity around the term, an antihero is generally a character who undergoes the classic hero's journey without having all of the typical...
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Death of a Salesman
One of the quotes that show Willy's disappointment at Biff's choice of moving West to work at a ranch come in Act 1, after Happy and Biff discover, through Linda, that Willy has been acting...
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Of Mice and Men
In Of Mice and Men, Steinbeck presents George as a picture of a man who is hardworking but has an extremely heavy burden, taking care of Lennie. He speaks frequently of getting enough money to get...
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Death of a Salesman
In Arthur Miller's play Death of a Salesman, symbols are used to convey a greater meaning and tie in with the overall themes of the play. In Act II, Willy has a desire to purchase and plant seeds....
