eric j sterling

the american dream prevades serminal drama. willy loman convet all the trapping of success that define the american dream.

eric j sterling

p3

loman inform his son that bernand will not succed in a career because high grade and diligance do not carry as much weight in america as apperance and charm '' because the man who makes apperiance in bussiness world , the man who create personal intrest , is the man who get ahead , be like yu will never want''

eric j sterling

pg 6

he is talking about how a sales man sells himself and his personality and charm. yet willie is not yet liked and doesnot know how to charm ppl to make bussiness out of it

 eric j sterling

pg 6

death of a salesman contains much symbolism that affect the meaning of the play and the protrayel of the characters

eric j sterling

pg 6

the play setting provides a major symbole in the tall apartment building that tower over lomans house

eric j sterling

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willy death sets his son free

wade bradford

bradford talks about how the play has no suspence ; wade talkes about how her baby girl told him that '' daddy this is the most boring mystery'' dad answers ;;its a drama not a myestery ''We learn very early on in the play that his professional life is a failure. He’s the low-man on the totem pole, hence his last name, “Loman.” (Very clever, Mr. Miller!) Within the first fifteen minutes of the play, the audience learns that Willy is no longer capable of being a traveling salesman. We also learn that he is suicidal.

wade bradford

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Willy Loman kills himself at the end of the play. But well before the conclusion, it becomes clear that the protagonist is bent upon self-destruction. His decision to kill himself for the $20,000 insurance money comes as no surprise; the event is blatantly foreshadowed throughout much of the dialogue.

wade bradford

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The Loman Brothers

wade bradford

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wade bradford talks about the secound son of willy--

Biff: He’s more likable than Happy. He has been toiling on farms and ranches, working with his hands. Whenever he returns home for a visit, he and his father always argue. Willy Loman wants him to make it big somehow. Yet, Biff can’t hold down a 9-to-5 job to save his life.

wade bradford

wade was comparing the two brothers personality together and how they act , he said ''Both brothers are in their mid-thirties. Yet, they act as though they are still boys. The play is set in the productive years following World War II. Did the athletic Lowman brothers fight in the war? It doesn’t seem like it. If they had, perhaps they would be completely different people. They don’t seem to have experienced much during the seventeen years since their high school days. Biff has been moping. Happy has been philandering. Well-developed characters possess more complexity.''

wade bradford

 Willy Loman represents the common man. Arthur Miller felt that tragedy could be found in the life of ordinary people. While I certainly agree, I also believe that tragedy works best when the main character’s choices become whittled away, much like a masterful yet imperfect chess player who suddenly realizes he is out of moves.

''Harold Bloom'' on Death of a Salesman

the death of a salesman is and absolutly tragedy at the end but the death of willy set his sons free.“I am not a leader of men, Willy, and neither are you,” the son, Biff, declares soberly, in the final movement of the play. “You were never anything but a hardworking drummer who landed in the ash can like all the rest of them!”

harlod bloom talkes about the death of aurther miller resemblling the ''death of a salesman''

''I always felt that the play WAS a tragedy, even though a middle-class man doesn’t have as far to fall as a king … But THAT was Miller’s point. That was Miller’s point.''

harlod bloom

Harold Bloom had this to say about “Death of a Salesman:

I myself resist the drama each time I reread it, because it seems that its language does not hold me, and then I see it played onstage . . . and I yield to it.

harlod bloom

thought

''The character of Willy Loman is, although very specific and real, is also an archetype. And because the audience identified with this person who had a great fall by the end of the play, the catharsis (pity and terror) was enormous. You PITY Willy Loman. And you are terrified of any similarities you may have with him. Willy Loman was not JUST a character in a play. He became ALL of us.''

harlod bloom

the tragedy that happens in the death of a salesman is very innocent '' he said but the death that happens to aurthr miller is a reall hero tragdy

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Miller divided Death of A Salesman into only three sections: Act I, Act II and a short Requiem. For purpose of examination and explanation, we have divided the work into seven smaller portions, or "chunks." We started a new chunk when new themes, characters, or plot points are introduced. The following table of contents gives the approximate page numbers of the start of each chunk.

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Willy has lost at trying to live the American Dream and the play can be viewed as commentary about society. Willy was a man who was worked all his life by the machinery of Democracy and Free Enterprise and was then spit mercilessly out, spent like a "piece of fruit."

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Throughout the play the Lomans in general cannot distinguish between reality and illusion, particularly Willy. This is a major theme and source of conflict in the play. Willy cannot see who he and his sons are. He believes that they are great men who have what it takes to be successful and beat the business world. Unfortunately, he is mistaken. In reality, Willy and sons are not, and cannot, be successful.

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''This reality versus illusion problem eventually brings about Willy's downfall. In the end, Willy believes that a man can be "worth more dead than alive." Charlie, always the voice of reality tells Willy, "A man isn't worth anything dead."

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willy struggle to reach the american dream but never make it

Willy's brother, Ben, continually appears in the troubled man's mind, offering hints on how to make it in the world of business.

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 Willy feels that he must live up to the standard that Ben has set, but this is found to be impossible by the end of the play. 

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Only Biff ever realizes who he is ("a dime a dozen") and what his potential really is.  He is the only member of the family to finally escape from the poisonous grasp of illusion. 

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One of Miller's secondary themes is the idea of the American Dream.  Throughout his play, Miller seems to criticize this ideal as little more than a capitalist's paradigm.  Though Willy spends all of his adult life working for a sales company, this company releases the salesman when he proves to be unprofitable.  Willy confronts Howard, his boss (and Miller indicts free market society), when he charges, "You can't eat the orange and throw the peel away-a man is not a piece of fruit." Here, Willy feels that Howard has gone back on his father's word by forgetting him in his golden years, throwing away the peel after eating the orange, so to speak.  Thus, Willy is unable to cope with the changing times and the unfeeling business machine that is new york

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at the end willy landed tragedy ''The idea that "personality wins the day" is one such flaw in Willy's logic.  Indeed, substance, not personality or being well liked, is what wins the day.  Charley and Bernard, who have success but not personality, prove to Willy that his notion is incorrect.  But unfortunately, Willy never understands this, and so goes to his grave never truly realizing where he went wrong.''