Debbie Salyers ASEN 102 19 November 2001 "Death of a Salesman" Arthur Miller is recognized as an important and influential playwright, not to mention essayist and novelist. ... By the use of symbolism, Arthur Miller portrays Willy's (along with the other Lomans) problems with family life, the society, and himself in "Death of a Salesman." ... "Death of a Salesman" is a play relating to the events leading to the downfall of Willy Loman, an aging salesman who is at one time prosperous, but is now approaching the end of his usefulness (Brucher 305). ... To begin with, the setting of "De...

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In the play ˜Death of a Salesman' by Arthur Miller, the playwright focuses on the theme of failure in a success oriented society. ... Miller's use of symbolism heightens the significance of this theme and is important to the larger context of the play. ˜Death of a Salesman' uses many symbols to help develop the play. ... Diamonds symbolize Willy's failure as a salesman. ... In conclusion, the symbols used in ˜The Death of a Salesman,' help develop the context of the play. ...

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Success and Failure in Death of a Salesman Throughout history society's interpretations of success and failure remain fundamentally sound. ... Many of Miller's life experiences are relative to the situations he presents in the drama, Death of a Salesman. ... Furthermore, he grew-up in a "nuclear family", which explains why the plot in Death of a Salesman revolves around the same type of family (DA 15). ... His surroundings and family situations provided him with the knowledge necessary to write the drama, Death of a Salesman. ... In Arthur Miller's drama, Death of a Salesman,...

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Arthur Miller's play "Death of a Salesman" is filled with symbolism from the opening scene. ... The apartment buildings, the rubber hose, Willy's brother Ben, the tape recorder, and the seeds for the garden represent Willy's failure as a father and salesman. ... Because of this, he was unable to provide for his family through his death or leave them with proud memories of their father. ...

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"Death of a Salesman" The play death of a salesman can be easily explained as a literary way of detailing the psychological deterioration of the classic middle class working American man. ... Throughout the play Willie is seen at his job as a traveling salesman, he is at the age of 63 and his wife wants him to obtain a job in the city so he will not have to travel anymore. ... As it is shown throughout the novel, the strong feelings of abandonment felt by Willie eventually lead up to his death in him believing that he is still working for the betterment of his family, and the attainment o...

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Cox English 112 Feb. 27,2002 One is the Loneliest Number In the stories "Canoe" and "Death of a Traveling Salesman" we are given two different main characters that are strikingly similar... (S&L 303) "Death of a Traveling Salesman is a story of contrasts" (Daniel 278) R.J. ... This emotional trauma leads to Bowman accepting the inevitable end to his sickness: death. ... "Death of a Traveling Salesman" is set in the past probably the thirties while "Canoe" is set in more modern times. ... Likewise, Bowman comes to a similar epiphany in "Death of a Traveling Salesman" at the end ...

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In some chapters, like Chapter 3, the anonymous narrator uses symbolism to provide the readers with an idea about the migrant workers. ... In these, the narrator often takes the voice of a typical man, such as a corrupt car salesman, expressing the person's individual concerns. ... In the narrative chapters, he often presents tragedies, such as the grandparents" deaths or the family dog's death or the reports of men returning in despair from California, to let the reader know that the Joads won't have it easy in the west. ...

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It is metaphorically rich & full of symbolism. ... This father was a shoe salesman, and consistently fought violently with his wife, Tennessee's mother, and a minister's daughter. ... Williams choked to death on a bottle cap in Hotel Elysee, located in NYC. ... This play was dwarfed only by Arthur's Death of a Salesman, which became a classic; won, not only the Drama Critic's Circle award of 1949, but also the Pulitzer Prize. ... With the expressionistic over tones, Death of Salesman remains Arthur's mostly widely admired work. ...

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Symbols are used to represent something else by association, resemblance, or convention, for example works like Death of a Salesman, Catcher in the Rye, and The Great Gatsby. ... The film portrays the novels symbolism just as it is written in the original novel. ... For example Gatsby took the blame for Myrtle's death, instead of turning Daisy in. ... Overall The Great Gatsby contains great amount of irony, symbolism, and foreshadowing. ...

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Walter Neff is the insurance salesman for her husband and later on becomes Phyllis's lover. ... When she invites Neff to her home when her husband wasn't there, the death of the husband's last wife, and the insurance policy talk; is where my suspicion came from. ... The symbolism that represents their feminine side is Rosemary's nightgown and Phyllis's anklet. ...

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Kafka uses symbolism in his story as tool to get the reader to try to figure out what is going on in his head. ... In Gregor's case, he was just an average man working as a salesman to try to help care for his family, to the point that he had neglected his own personal needs and wants. ... With the new jobs they had found, Gregor's death was likely to lead to better things later on because they no longer deal with the problem of keeping him and hiding him from strangers. ... After his death, they moved out of the flat, which was too expensive for them, leaving all of their memorie...

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In saying this Nick means is that the conventional social idea in the world about a rose connoting atheistic beauty is because people give it that symbolism. ... After Gatsby's death Nick believes that Gatsby gave all he had for a dream that had little promise, noting that "Gatsby's wonder when he first picked out Daisy's dock his dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it. ... With the death of Lennie, George's dreams are further destroyed and he realizes the harsh reality when Slim comforts him at the end. ...

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Kafka uses the symbolism of the man's metamorphosis to perpetuate the theme of isolation among people and their unending enslavement to the work world by forces of materialism. ... Though he hates his job as a traveling salesman, he endures the monotony of work life for the good of his family. ... It is almost like a death to the family rather than a metamorphosis. ... This injury is the inevitable catalyst of Gregor's unclimatic and sad death. ...

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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. ...

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There is symbolism in this small tale, however, for when the turtle first tried climbing over the wall, a wild oat got stuck in his shell, and after being hit by the truck and flipping himself over, "the wild oat head fell out and three of the spearhead seeds stuck in the ground" (Steinbeck, 22) . ... In chapter seven, the reader is shifted into the mind of a crooked car salesman who takes advantage of the great migration of farmers to the west by selling broken cars at outrageous prices, "listen Jim, I heard that Chevvy's rear end sounds like bustin" bottles squirt in a couple quarts of ...

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Has Aunt Jemima sizzled the Romantic South? African American enslavement from 1600---? From blackface minstrelsy to American advertisement, Aunt Jemima has remained a cultural touchstone of significant political and social change. The Aunt Jemima icon has existed for almost 100 years and has be...

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