In Death of a Salesman, by Arthur Miller this lens is supported in the American Dream. ... Characterization is used effectively in revealing what type of character Willy Loman was. ... Miller chose the job of salesman carefully for his American Dreamer. ... Additionally, a salesman must sell his/her personality as much as his/her product. ... The lens, "Literature opens a dark window on the soul, revealing more about what is bad in human nature than what is good" is supported in the novel Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller. ...

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Themes and Morals of "Death of a Salesman" Arthur Miller's "Death of a Salesman" captures the motions of life through the eyes of those who have lost their identity and sense of reality. ... The "American Dream", a universal and common theme among American literature, is very evident in "Death of a Salesman. ... "Death of a Salesman" offers many valuable morals as a result of its themes. ... "Death of a Salesman" presents and elaborates upon two extremely important morals that readers shall value. Although the characters in "Death of a Salesman" have good intentions, they falter....

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I recently saw a performance of Death of a Salesman by Arthur Millar at the Lyceum Theatre. ... The main character Willy Lomand cannot distinguish between reality and illusion. ... It has been claimed that Death of a Salesman is a "play for the American individual who had built his house, made his machines and enriched himself with every comfort, but still found himself more nervous than proud, more lonely than certain." ... In my opinion this is what Death of a Salesman achieves. Death of a Salesman is a sad story about Will Lomand (very much a story of his mind and was originally called...

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Werner-King Death of a Salesman - Act 1 Second Look In the first act of the play Death of a Salesman, by Arthur Miller, the concepts of irony and contradiction are presented very well. ... Willy Loman is the central character in the play. Being a salesman, he has to travel frequently for his work. ... A proof for this statement would be the fact that as you read Death of a Salesman, you seem to increasingly feel bad for Linda Loman. ... This is the first act of Death of a Salesman, written by Arthur Miller. ...

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In the play, Death of a Salesman, the character Willy Loman portrays the role of a traveling salesman who feels insecure about his persona. ... In Death of a Salesman, the theme of the "American Dream" is to have the ideal family, be successful, and well-liked. ... He isn't your average manager or Vice President of a Company, he is your average traveling salesman. ...

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Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman Essay In life, there are many lessons and trials one must endure, learn from, and then overcome. ... In Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman, Willy Loman portrays this very man; one who is lost in his own world, without a clue about life or himself. ... Yet, knowing Happy's character in the past, this again is not a very realistic idea. ... Linda has a different reaction to Willy's death. ... Willy's character is not a good role model. ...

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Willy's Useless Advice About Success Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman is a play that illustrates a family that lives in a dream world but ultimately comes into reality. ... Eventually, the Lomans understand that their family is average with common problems such as financial instability, marital troubles, and character flaws. Willy Loman, husband and the father of two sons, is a sixty-year-old, insecure traveling salesman. ... Unlike those who surround him, the old salesman fails to achieve the life he has always visualized. ... The salesman is too driven by his needs ...

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Delusional Dreams Death of a Salesman is a tragic story of a man and his delusional dreams. ... Various characters in the story represent the difference between failure and success within our system. ... This characteristic followed him to his death bed. Willy believed his funeral would be a major event that many would attend to pay tribute to one of the greatest salesman to ever live. ... In conclusion, Death of a Salesman is a tragic drama that really makes the reader wonder about our so-called "American Dream." ...

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In the play Death of a Salesman, infidelity plays an important role in the theme of the play. ... It was always a mystery to the rest of the characters why Biff and Willy were so angry at each other because they once got along so well. ... I even believed myself that I'd been a salesman for him! ... In the play Death of a Salesman Willy wanted people to think he was well liked and respected. ... Infidelity was a climax that caused many conflicts in the play Death of a Salesman....

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The overlying theme in Arthur Miller's "Death of a Salesman- is about the "American Dream-, which means success, and what it takes to achieve it. Miller is able to achieve this by creating various characters, each with a different view of that dream. His main character in the play is Willy who has a lot of false pride and nave views on success. ... In the play Willy plays a career salesman that never advanced in life; with many tragic flaws that ultimately lead to his downfall. ... There are many views of success and the "American Dream- in "Death of a Salesman."" ...

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Death of a Salesman Character Analysis Willy Loman a traveling salesman who has worked for the Wagner firm for thirty-four years. ... The overwhelming tensions caused by this disparity, as well as those caused by the societal imperatives that drive Willy, form the essential conflict of Death of a Salesman. ... He is a traveling salesman, the low man of popular United States culture, who believes in the false promises of the American Dream. ...

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"Death of a Salesman," is a play written in the mid-1900s by Arthur Miller. ... Miller establishes the main characters and their relationships by employing characterization. Characterization is the process by which the writer reveals the personality of a character. At the beginning of the play, Miller introduces each of the characters. ... Throughout his novel "Death of a Salesman," Miller uses literary devices to convey the relationships between Willy and the members of his family. ...

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Death of a Salesman, by Arthur Miller, is a tragedy that analyzes the relationships of a family in search of the "American Dream."" The plays plot specifically focuses on the relationships between the protagonist, Willy Loman, a salesman, and his sons, Biff and Happy. ... In Death of a Salesman, by Arthur Miller invisible walls can be the cause of difficult parent/child relationships. ... Death of a Salesman is the supposed "American- tragedy. ... The Loman tragedy was a tragedy in retrospect that the family never got it together and undoubtedly static character will repeat the same mistakes...

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The Great Gatsby and Death of a Salesman are both explorations of the elusive and often unreachable vision of the American Dream. Jay Gatsby, the main character in The Great Gatsby, and Willy Loman, the main character in Death of a Salesman, both symbolize the American Dream. ... On the other hand, in Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman, Willy Loman believes the American dream is to be not only wealthy but also happy and successful. ... He is nothing but a working class salesman that cannot provide for his family. ... In both works, the main character tried to achieve the American D...

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In Arthur Miller's "Death of a Salesman", only a small number of aspects were lost from the movement of the play to the movie. ... This is why our view of the characters can be distorted. ... An example would be Biff, from "Death of a Salesman". ... The film and play "Death of a Salesman" followed the traditional plot structure very accurately. ... After Willie is dead, there is a silence sensed throughout the characters. ...

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In the Death of a Salesman, the main character Willy Loman struggles to be superior to society but tragically fails because of his arrogance and stubbornness. Willy is an exhausted father of two sons, Happy and Biff, and husband to Linda. He suffers from a mental illness that impairs his thinking, ...

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Willy Loman to this day is one of the hardest characters for an actor to act out in a play. The reason why is that he is a complex character that is held prisoner in his own beliefs of a what a successful man should be. ... 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...

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Arthur Miller's Death Of A Salesman demoralizes the idea of this dream that everyone hopes to achieve. ... The play should be seen as a whole in which the life, and death of Willy Loman shows the faulty deception of this American Dream. ... Through the play Linda has shown she is the most toughest, and realistic character, maintaining herself and being the moral center of the play. ... Which is completely true, Willy was never meant to be a salesman. ... Charley and his son Bernard are the only two people beside Willy's family to attend the funeral and take any care into Willy'...

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Arthur Miller incorporates several literary techniques throughout this dramatic monologue in Death of a Salesman to convey Biff Loman's culminating frustration towards his father, Willy Loman. ... However, after finally accepting his true potential and declaring that he was just a "dime a dozen," Biff's facade begins to deteriorate to reveal his true character, along with his numerous weaknesses. ... His choice of interrogatory and exclamatory punctuation, along with simplistic sentence structure and purposeful name selection, make Biff Loman's monologue one of the mos...

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Willy's character focuses on becoming more than just another face in the crowd. Willy's life long dream was to be a successful, well-liked salesman. ... For example, he told his family and others that he made lots of money as a salesman. ... He also began to believe he was a liked salesman. ... One character that used the desire to become more than a meaningless individual in a positive way was Bernard. ...

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The Ultimate Sale The characters of Death of a Salesman are easy to identify with because they represent a pretty typical dysfunctional American family. ... Willy Loman, the protagonist of this play, is probably the most washed up and distraught of all the characters. ... The money from his death, however, will heal no wounds, or right any wrongs. ...

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Main character of the play. He's sixty-three years old and is the salesman around whom this play "Death of a Salesman- is constructed. Willy Loman is a traveling salesman who grew up inspired by the success of his salesman father, who left his family for Alaska. ... Willy's suicide is the consequence of a sad man, who has many unrealized dreams, even until his death. ...

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Arthur Miller's play "Death of a Salesman- captures a life full of struggle and disappointment for an aging salesman. ... Willy's emphasis on being well liked and his dependence on others approval distinguished him as a character for his time. ... Death of a Salesman. ... "Consumer Man in Crisis in Death of a Salesman."" ... "Family Values in Death of a salesman."" ...

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In Arthur Miller's play "Death of a Salesman," Willy Lowman is an aging salesman who never tries to improve his present circumstances, but opts instead to flee from them, by recalling better times in the past when his life had fewer conflicts. ... Willy thinks of "The Woman", his mistress, he recalls a time when she reassures him of his great character and his good looks. ...

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Likewise, in Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman, the main character Willy Loman lives his life in a dream. ... Even still, he chooses not to come to terms with reality and death seems like the only answer to him- leading him to commit suicide at the conclusion of the play. ...

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