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. ... Willy Loman, husband and the father of two sons, is a sixty-year-old, insecure traveling salesman. ... Happy and Biff are pathological liars, but, by the end of the story, Biff reveals the truth about their unproductive lives. ... Biff and Happy have plenty of good traits and are very well-liked, but they do not amount to anything worth bragging about. ... Oliver, Willy gives some awful advice about how h...

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In the play, " Death of a Salesman" , Arthur Miller depicts a typical dysfunctional family. ... Willy Loman is a salesman who after thirty-four years of being on the road, is slowly starting to deteriorate physically as well as mentally. Upon his being fired, Willy tries to understand why he has failed as a salesman, a father, and as a husband. ... Biff and Happy got into an argument about Happy's apparent disregard for Willy, and Biff stormed out of the restaurant. ... When the woman asks him about his father, happy replies, "No, that's not my father. ...

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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. ... In anger, Biff breaks down and sobs, telling Willy just to forget about him. ...

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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. ... He even lied to the United States under oath about his relationship with her. ...

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The Dysfunctional Family In Arthur Miller's drama, "Death of a Salesman" the protagonist is a sixty-year-old salesperson by the name of Willy Loman. ... Everyone in the family has a habit of interrupting one another, this is obvious when Biff and Linda are talking about Willy's car accidents: "Biff :! ... Biff and Happy get into an argument about Happy's apparent disregard for Willy. ... When one of the women asks Happy about his father, he replies, "No, that's not my father. ... Not only did Willy chuckle with Biff about the theft, he makes the excuse that "Sure, he&...

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In the Death of a Salesman, Biff views the city on by the physical advantages that it attribute to his success as a whole. ... There is one point during the book, where Willy is hallucinating that Biff is playing in this huge game and he is telling all his imaginary friends about it. ... In the first Act, when Willy comes out from his attempted trip, he complains about the way the buildings are located. ... People here are much more interested about social status, as opposed to people in Andorra who are much friendlier and are much more welcoming. ...

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In Death of a Salesman, the central character, Willy Loman, suffers great misfortune due to his denial of reality. ... Biff tells Happy about his visit to see Bill Oliver. ... Like a tragedy should, there are uncontrollable elements that add to the misfortunes of the tragic protagonist in Death of a Salesman, and this event in which Biff discovers Willy's dishonesty is an example of this. ... While the uncontrollable force had been divine in Greek tragedies, political in Elizabethan tragedies, it seems that social environment and coincidence have replaced these in Death of a Salesman. ...

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In Death of A Salesman, Arthur Miller gradually hints at the upcoming revelation in Biff Loman's psyche, turning a subtle change in consciousness into one of the most dramatic and climactic parts of the entire work. ... This "change-, that we can tell is about to occur, has become so suspenseful and so dramatic as a result of Miller's interweaving of the past and the present, with each new event and each past mistake creating more and more and more of a sort of "tension-, that we know at any moment could snap completely. ... In Death of a Salesman, Arthur Miller does an impeccable ...

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In the plays" Death of a Salesmen and Fences, the main characters succeed at establishing a relationship with their family but both manage to ruin it by making foolish decisions. ... In the Death of a Salesmen, Biff looked up to his father, Willy, until the life changing event creates a chain reaction of events that permanently scars their relationship. ... Later on when Cory finds out about what his father had done, Cory is furious. ... The father-son relationship from Death of a Salesman was ruined during Biff's senior year. ... Biff stops caring about life and does not care to succeed ...

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