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Death of a Salesman
Biff was correct in his assumption that Willy's dreams were "all wrong". Shortly before Willy's death, Biff began to experience an epiphany in which he realized the extent of Willy's fantasies and...
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First, both novels imply that crookedness is part of achieving the American Dream. Willy Loman makes it clear to his sons that it doesn't matter how hard you work, it's who likes you. He looks down...
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The American Dream is the idea that any citizen, regardless of their background or socioeconomic status, can attain financial success and stability simply by applying themselves and working hard....
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Death of a Salesman
Despite falling out with Willy over his affair with a secretary, Biff has found it difficult to emerge from under his old man's shadow. Since he was knee-high to a grasshopper, Biff has had it...
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There are several ways to approach the assignment to write an analysis of Biff discussing his internal conflict and how he resolves it, as well as explaining his epiphany. First, you need to be...
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Writing a character analysis can be intimidating, but a little outlining and brainstorming can help you get started. I would advise you to start by doing what's called a "quick write" about the...
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When Biff and Happy tell Willy about their plan to start a sporting goods business together in Florida, Willy becomes ecstatic and genuinely believes that they will make a fortune. Willy has high...
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Death of a Salesman
The set design in Death of a Salesman reflects and conveys Willy’s outlook and emotions. Feeling frustrated, angry, and vulnerable, Willy looks to the future with despair and muted hope. Before...
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Willy Loman is depicted as an irrational person, who struggles to come to terms with the fact that he is not a successful salesman or father. Willy Loman refuses to accept the bleak reality of his...
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Death of a Salesman
Charley is refering to the theme of dreams and their importance in this play. The truth is that if we examine the play carefully, Willy certainly had lots of different other options in terms of how...
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The concept of the American Dream revolves around the belief that anyone, regardless of their background and social class, can accomplish their ambitions and experience upward progress. This dream...
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Death of a Salesman
The Lomans are portrayed as a dysfunctional family and live in a delusional fantasy world, where they are accomplished, successful individuals on the verge of experiencing a big break. Willy Loman...
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Willy Loman is the portrait of a man living in denial. All his life, he has clung to the dream that he can get rich quickly and easily through sales. He has always believed that he could succeed on...
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Death of a Salesman
As Arthur Miller’s play progresses, the audience can see that Willy Loman is experiencing numerous mental health problems. While some of those problems may be long-standing, Miller provides...
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When a director undertakes a film presentation of a popular novel or play, he has the right to infuse his own interpretations of its theme and character. This is certainly true of Death of a...
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Late in act 2 of Miller's Death of a Salesman, Happy and Biff, the sons of protagonist Willy Loman, are waiting for him to arrive at a restaurant where they are to meet for dinner. Before he...
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Willy Loman is keenly aware of the fact that he and his brother were basically abandoned as children. While he squashes the facts with fantastic accounts of how great his father was, the reality is...
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Issues of abandonment arise frequently in Arthur Miller’s play. Miller mentions in his published Introduction that one of the key images that presented itself to him as he was putting the play...
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Willy's psychological problems are at the heart of his family's dysfunction. Three psychological defense mechanisms Willy uses (and you can apply some these to other family members too) are denial,...
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Death of a Salesman
To some extent, the title of the play refers not just to the death of Willy Loman but to the death of a particular breed of salesman. Back in the day, Dave Singleman was a legendary figure, working...
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Biff and Happy have a relatively amicable relationship, which is established on delusion. In the play, Biff is thirty-four years old and Happy is two years younger. Both the Loman boys are...
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Simply put, "the woman" is the person with whom Willy has an affair. She is set up as a contrast to Linda, particularly in the way that Willy treats them both. Throughout the play, her flashbacks...
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The most obvious answer is that all suffer and this would be a true answer. However, if you have to narrow it down, there will be lots of opinions. In my opinion, the one who suffers the most is...
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Willy has a tense and difficult relationship with his elder son Biff. He feels that Biff has let him down by not being any more successful in life than Willy himself has been. Biff has no proper...
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Linda and Willy have a complicated marriage, where their real issues are continually overlooked, and their emotions are suppressed. While both Linda and Willy love each other, each character has...
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Charley is the realistic one as Ben only appears to Willy in his illusions or dreams. Charley is the complete opposite of Ben. Charley has attained a limited degree of success within his own town...
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In Arthur Miller's play, Willy Loman's difficulties in sales apparently began some time ago, but not long before the play begins, things have gotten worse. The Lomans live in a lower middle-class...
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Ben is Willy's deceased old brother. He amassed a fortune after discovering diamonds in the African jungle. Willy Loman views Ben as a symbol of success and desperately attempts to earn his respect...
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In Death of a Salesman, the idea of success is examined through the lives of Willy Loman and his sons, Biff and Happy. For Willy, success means being personally popular ("well liked") and making a...
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Modern drama differs dramatically from the pre-twentieth-century theater. It rejects the conventions of "realistic" restrictions of time, place, and action. Through the ages there have...
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Willy is a struggling salesman who can barely make ends meet. Charley is a successful business man. Willy thinks success means being well liked; success is being popular. Charley does not need...
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I would say that both the plays support the view that tragedy enables audiences to deeply feel the chaotic life of the protagonist. In both plays, the protagonist lets his illusions about how he...
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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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During a delusional episode as his neighbor, Charley, offers him a job in the successful business he has built, Willy has an imaginary conversation with his older brother, Ben, who he admires as a...
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The America Dream is commonly associated with both a materialistic and a philosophical self-determination. And self-determination is the key concept to consider when examining the American Dream....
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The exposition of the play lays the groundwork for the various conflicts that face Willy (and the rest of the Loman family). In the early portion of the play, Biff's return is discussed as well as...
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We don't know for certain if Linda knows about her husband's extra-marital affair with a secretary. It's more than possible that she does. But in the overall scheme of things, it's really not that...
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I'm not a leader of men, Willy, and neither are you. You were never anything but a hard-working drummer who landed in the ash can like all the rest of them! I'm one dollar an hour, Willy! I tried...
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A number of ideas connect these two plays. From similar protagonists and supporting characters to actual events in each play, the works of Miller and Sophocles offer a rich set of comparative...
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There is little comparison between the two except that they are, indeed, brothers, products of Willy Loman's lost dream. On a literal level, Happy represents just that, happy, a shallow, fleeting...
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Death of a Salesman
In Arthur Miller's play Death of a Salesman the character of Willy Loman represents the sad reality of those who establish goals with the wrong aim, and those who live life in self-denial. Willy is...
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I adjusted your question so that I could address all the parts: we can only answer one question per posting. A motif is like a recurring theme, and we see this continually throughout Miller's play....
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A good indicator is Willy's personality and tendencies. Willy simply wasn't made out to be a salesman. He never had the success he desired and craved. He always had visions of grandeur and...
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The main difference between the characters of Biff and Happy Loman is that, in the end, Biff gets to realize that his life has been a lie. Although Happy is aware of the same situation, he...
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A tragedy is usually defined as a piece of literature which contains somber theme, typically that of a great person destined through a flaw of character or conflict with some overpowering force, as...
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In Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman we encounter an ongoing conflict between salesman Willy Loman and his eldest son, Biff. The conflict stems from Willy's parenting philosophy and his...
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This is a great question and Miller's work, Death of a Salesman is directly related to the the American Dream in an inverse way. In view of this, it is best to define the American dream first and...
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Willy Loman has conventional aspirations for himself and his family. Because he believes in a standard version of the American dream, he imagines that he and his sons as reaching the kinds of goals...
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Illusion is addressed constantly within Arthur Miller’s play. One aspect might instead be called “delusion,” as several of the characters are operating with fantastic ideas about what constitutes...
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Miller's depiction of Willy is highly based in realism. Miller wanted to depict a tragic condition of a "regular guy," someone with whom audiences could identify. Miller, himself, asserted this:...
