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P 44 Linda To Biff
1,319 wordsAnalysis of the Ending of 'Death of a Salesman " The play 'Death of a Salesman's hows the final demise of Willy Loan, 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 compassion. The book describes the last day of his life, but there are frequent 'flashbacks' in which Willy relives key even...
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Great Willy Loman
1,144 wordsFaded Dreams In the play Death of a Salesman Willy Loman who is the salesman, was mainly concerned with the success of his family. He set his goals and expectations for himself and his sons that were so high that they were impossible to reach. Willy was reaching for the American dream. He wanted to live in a great neighborhood, he wanted to have his own business, and he wanted his sons to be successful He wanted the perfect life. Unfortunately people dont always get what they want. Instead of th...
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Biff's Failures Causes Willy
2,264 wordsIn Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman, [the protagonist] Willy Loman's inability to live in and cope with the present ultimately destroys him. The are several constant themes and ideas throughout the play which show this. Willy's inability to be successful according to his own standards is most problematical for him. The troublesome relationship between Willy and his family also leads to a great deal of stress. And the constants flashbacks and disillusions Willy goes through to deal with these ...
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Willy's Next Trip Into The Past
1,388 wordsDeath of a Salesman Crazy Willy Willy Loman is one of the most tragic heroes in American drama today. He has a problem differentiating reality from fantasy. No one has a perfect life. Everyone has conflicts that they must face sooner or later. The ways in which people deal with these personal conflicts can differ as much as the people themselves. Some insist on ignoring the problem as long as possible, while some attack the problem to get it out of the way. In the case of Willy in Arthur Miller'...
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Willy's Dream For Biff
898 wordsDeath of a Salesman "The American dream is, in part, responsible for a great deal of crime and violence because people feel that the country owes them not only a living but a good living". Said David Abra hansen. This is true and appropriate in the case of Willy Loman, and his son Biff Loman. Both are eager to obtain their American dream, even though both have completely different views of what that dream should be. The play Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller shows the typical lives of typical...
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Tension Between Biff And Willy
837 wordsBANG! Your father is dead. Within a few seconds, although he attempted many times, your father dies. He gave up. All the fights, all the disrespect, and all the struggles are behind you. However, all the hope, all the passion, and all the love is still there. In Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman, the main conflict is between Willy Lowman and his son Biff. Most of their struggles are based on disrespect; however, much of the tension throughout the play is also caused by the act of giving up. Di...
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Willy's Favoritism Towards Biff
2,767 wordsEssay # 1 "Willy as a hero or a villain" A large controversy that revolves around the play "Death of a Salesman" is whether or not Willy Loman was actually a hero or a villain in the story. It certainly cannot be said that he is really one or the other because of the evidence that is given throughout. At some times he seems the pitiful victim of other people's actions but at others he seems to have only himself to blame. Most don't know whether to feel sorry for him or to hate him. Although ther...
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Willy's Graveside Biff
404 wordsAt Willy's graveside Biff made a statement, the man didnt know who he was. This revives the implication that Willy chose the wrong profession. He remembers that Willy loved to renovate his house. He recalls that Willy was in highest spirits and most gratified when he labored at building something with his own hands. This is emphasized in this quote by Biff: There were a lot of nice days when hed come home form a trip; or on Sundays, making the stoop; finishing the cellar; putting on the new porc...
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Willy Loman In His Play
913 wordsDeath of a Salesman: Society's Alienation of Willy Loman By: Joey Powell It is often stated that society is very judgmental. It can be seen in movies, literary works, or just an everyday walk of life. Arthur Miller chooses to portray society's prejudice against the protagonist, Willy Loman, in his play, Death of a Salesman. Society, in this case, rejects Willy Loman because he isn't upper class, and because he is getting up in age. Many society's judging of Willy, including him being fired, the ...
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Conversation Between Willy And His Son Biff
845 words'Maybe I did not live as I ought to have done, ... but how could that be, when I did everything properly?' ; I can hear it now, Willy Loman uttering those words as he flips through the pages of his life. In the play, Death of a Salesman, by Arthur Miller, we witness the deterioration and death of a very well intentioned man. The quote above from Leo Tolstoy's Ivan Ily ch, could not possibly better echo the situation developed in Arthur Miller's play. The play becomes Willy Loman's life trial in ...
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Willy's Supporter And Security Symbol
2,167 wordsArthur Miller is recognized as an important and influential playwright, not to mention essayist and novelist. Although he has had plenty of luck in his writing career, his fame is the product of his ingenious ability to control what he wants his readers to picture or feel. As one of his critics states, 'Miller writes ingeniously, conveying the message that 'if the proper study of mankind is man, man's inescapable problem is himself (Brown, 306). ' ' Miller accurately puts into words what every p...
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Willy Loman Tragic Hero
1,050 wordsWilly Loman Tragic Hero, OR Misguided Fool In The Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller, it is argued weather that Willy Loman is a tragic hero. There are cases for both classifications of Willy. By definition, a tragic hero is a person born into nobility, is responsible for their own fate, endowed with a tragic flaw, and doomed to make a serious error in judgment. The tragic hero eventually falls from great esteem. They realize they have made an irreversible mistake, faces death with honor, and ...
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Willy And Biff
1,973 wordsThe definition given (that the audience needs to have mixed feelings about the destruction of a human being for a play to be a tragedy) means that to establish 'Death of A Salesman' as a tragedy, we must be able to give evidence that not only is the audience made to feel sadness at Willy Loman's demise, but also that they are made to feel that some measure of justice has been exacted on him for his behaviour both past and present. As this is the case I will first examine the reasons why the audi...
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Hard Willy
576 wordsIt is late evening and the sun is about to set on old highway 53 heading south from Yonkers to home. Willy driving in is car, continuously thinking to himself, what he his going to do about all his problems. You see Willy is down on himself about his success in life. He thinks to himself that he could be better known and make more money to pay off his bills. As Willy is driving down the road it becomes hard for him to concentrate on the road as he thinks more and more about the good things that ...
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Early And Willy's Sad End
764 wordsHuman emotions are something that we seldom find a way to express clearly: from simple hand gestures, to a disgusted face. To understand his novel more thoroughly, Arthur Miller uses the most understandable method of comprehension, music, to express the emotions of the characters in his play, 'Death of a Salesman'. The characters, Willy, Linda, Biff, Happy, and Ben, have a certain style of music and instruments portraying them to show the reader what type of emotional person they are. The beginn...
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Willy Distorts Reality
375 wordsWilly distorts reality by exaggerating the past in order to satisfy his unmet hopes of the present. It is weird how different events of the past can change so rapidly when they travel from one person to another. Every time the story or event increases in excitement and drama. No one wants to tell a boring story so they add something to it. Soon enough you have a completely different story. It is in this concept that one realizes Willy's twisted images of the past. Willy had so many hopes and dre...
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Willys Fault The Way Biff
2,198 wordsTo What Extent Is Death Of A Salesman A Critisim Of The Values Of Modern American Society To what extent is Death of a Salesman a criticism of the values of modern American society The American Dream is based on the Declaration of Independence: We believe that all men are born with these inalienable rights life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. (Thomas Jefferson, 1776). This dream consists of a genuine and determined belief that in America, all things are possible to all men, regardless of ...
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Point Biffs Dream
785 wordsThe character biff in "Death of a salesman" by Arthur miller is the character with the most interesting part in the story. Biff is one of Willy loan two sons and the most favorite of the two. Willy took so much interest in biff because he see biff as one who has a lot to offer to the family, and he never saw happy as one who could make me a contribution to the family. Biff had a lot of things going on for him when he was in high school. He was the star of the football team in his high school, ha...
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American Dream And Willy's Disillusioned Values
730 wordsDeath of a Salesman, written by Arthur Miller, focuses on Willy Loman and his "American Dream". Depending on perspective, he could be considered a victim of this fallacy or the creator of his own tragic end. A combination of the two perpetuates his ultimate decision to take his own life. The "American Dream" usually entails having a happy family, a good job, a house and most of all, being successful. People in America sometimes have the notion that the only way to be successful and find fulfillm...
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Beginning Of The Play Willy
996 wordsThe Attempts Made Death of a Salesman, by Arthur Miller, is a play depicting one man, Willy Loman, in his attempt to achieve the American Dream while living amongst his wife and children. Throughout the play the reader is introduced to many characters, some who are dynamic and some who are static. In any good literal work there is a balance of both of these types of characters, and Death of a Salesman is no exception that Willy Loman, his wife Linda, and their two children, Biff and Happy, creat...
