He grew up in Brooklyn, New York City, which just happens to be the setting for Death of a Salesman. ... Death of a Salesman was Miller's "most critically celebrated play" (Leone 14). ... Death of a Salesman is about a salesman named Willy Loman who is in his 60's. ... He imagines his dead brother Ben a lot. ... In the basement of the house, Willy has rigged up a rubber hose into the gas line, so that all he has to do is turn a valve and breathe and he is dead. ...

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Although he understands the whole profession of being a salesman (where they use you up and spit you out), he fails to realize his personal failure and betrayal of his soul and family through the constructed deception of his life. ... You see, a salesman does not make his or her own product, has not mastered a particular skill or a body of knowledge, and works on the empty substance of dreams and promises. Additionally, a salesman must sell his or her personality as much as his or her product. ... When he was talking to Charley he realizes that "after all the highways, and the tr...

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Willy as Tragic Hero in Death of a Salesman Death of a Salesman is the story of Willy Loman, a middle-class salesman who, in the course of a single day, comes to realise that the American Dream, which he has pursued for 40 years, has failed him. ... He always thought that a good salesman should be impressive. he is obsessed with impressions. ... In Death of a Salesman, Miller is not so much calling into question the pursuit of the American Dream, but the dream itself. ... He always harps on the glorious past as a popular, impressive and successful salesman. ... Through the imagina...

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Arthur Miller's "Death Of A Salesman" is a story of a common man whose misaligned ideas of success ultimately lead to his demise .Having no central figure as a role model, Willy Loman (the salesman) is torn between accepting his own failure, relying on his own son's success, redeeming himself to his son, or listening to his deluded conversations with his deceased brother Ben. Although Ben is dead, his pseudo presence ultimately leads to Willy's tragic suicide. ... His boss and a fellow salesman were his mentors. ...

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• Grade Level: High School