Willy is a salesman, always traveling from state to state staying in motels away from home. ... He is a character who remains content only by trying to believe that he is living the "American Dream", and pride of his most valued possession is all he has to hold onto. ... He will now have his own house, but throughout their discussion as Linda is listing off all of the other payments that must be made, we begin to wonder what will be in this house. ...

• Word Count: 553
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

Mickey Spillane's books dominated the fictional bestsellers list of the 1950s, with six of them making the top ten. ... For example, in Mickey Spillane's novel One Lonely Night, the main male character, Detective Mike Hammer " realizes that Ethel Brighton has continued to associate with the scum and perverts who comprise the Communist movement. ... Arthur Miller, author of the play Death of a Salesman, recalls the scrutiny he underwent as a result of his play's storyline. Miller recalls that "Death of a Salesman questioned the ethos of the business civilization, which the play ...

• Word Count: 1556
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

I had a list of differences from the film but I selected a few of the main ones. ... Camera angles are used to give a certain perspective or a point of view about a character or a scene.For example when they show the eyes of T.J Eckleburg in the film they show it at a angle where the billboard is watching over everything that is going on.The colors which were used in the film where good for the time period that the film was made,but if you compare it to films that have come out recently the colors wouldnt be so great because of the fact that technology had evolutionized.The sound effects that ...

• Word Count: 1186
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

Henry Fonda's character is an architect named Mr. ... I will refer to this character from now on as "Fonda" for ease of writing and understanding. I have attached Appendix A listing the jurors in order of their juror number. ... Fonda stated calmly that he was not sure of the defendant's guilt or innocence, but that a life or death situation required more thought. ... He knew that the salesman wanted to go to the ball game and assured him there was plenty of time to discuss the case and still make the game. ...

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• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

Carl Hansberry had helped to establish one of the first black savings banks in Chicago, and he was also a successful real estate salesman. ... She said that his constant battle with racism had caused his early death. ... Her father Carl endured many struggles trying to help his family, but his struggles brought him an early death. ... Her characters in her play were mostly modeled off of her friends a family called the Jemisons. ... Beneatha, and Mama are characters fabricated from other sources. ...

• Word Count: 1699
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

He is most well know for his play "Death of a Salesman" for which he won the Pulitzer Prize in 1949. ... She then begins to list the people in the villiage who she claims she saw with the devil and Abigail and Betty quikly join in with the accusations. ... Finally, after yet another false hope of the witchcraft trials coming to an end, John Proctor along with many other characters in the play are unjustly hung. ...

• Word Count: 991
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

Vonnegut focuses on the death of a nation and its dream, a similar theme to that of another celebrated American author - Joseph Heller. ... Gonzo is a kind of "grass-roots" journalism, unedited and written as though the journalist themselves is a key character in the events unfolding. ... However, unlike Vonnegut and Heller's existential critique, Thompson's Stanislavskian reportage (that is, a kind of "method writing" conducive to great verisimilitude) involves him directly participating in the search for - and death of - the American Dream. ... Heller once wrote about Closing...

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Barnum was born as a salesman. ... With just five years old at the time of his first shows, he performed under the stage name General Tom Thumb for the next 40 years until his death, and wowed audiences in the United States with his complex routines and hilarious antics despite his young age and debilitating condition. Even after his death, doctors were never able to pinpoint the exact cause of his dwarfism. ...

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• Has Bibliography

The salesman who sold the rifle to Lowmeyer described him as a neat individual, who was about 30 or above, a white male about 6 feet tall and 165 pounds. ... Five days after King was shot, police found a Memphis hotel reservation on April 3 for Eric Starvo Galt, who listed a Birmingham, Alabama address and drove a white Mustang. ... News of the assassination resulted in an outpouring of shock and anger throughout the nation and the world, prompting riots in more than 100 United States cities in the days following King's death. After his death, King came to represent black courage and achi...

• Word Count: 2208
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School

When Thompson was 15 his father, Jack Thompson, an insurance salesman who Thompson had little relationship with, died after a lengthy period of fatigue brought on by a rare disease called Myasthenia Gravis (gonzo.org). ... After his father's death, Thompson began a crime spree that has lasted the rest of his life. One could say that his father's death has affected his writing styles; unfortunately, Thompson does not talk about his father in any published article or book that he has been connected with. ...

• Word Count: 3077
• Approx Pages: 12
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

On the train to Chicago, Drouet, a flamboyant and traveling salesman whose success in business is related to the image that he projects to others, approached her. ... Instead of returning back to Wisconsin, Carrie moved in with Drouet, the traveling salesman that she had met on the train that brought her to Chicago. ... Their values are determined not in relations to the content of their character, but on their abilities to role- play or when they are the objects of competition between men. ...

• Word Count: 7760
• Approx Pages: 31
• Grade Level: Undergraduate