"Literature opens a dark window on the soul, revealing more about what is bad in human nature than what is good." ... In Death of a Salesman, by Arthur Miller this lens is supported in the American Dream. ... 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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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. ... Willy Loman is a poor salesman with hopes of becoming a well-liked and respected man. ... He lies about how much people like him and how good of a salesman he is. ... Linda has a different reaction to Willy's death. ...

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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. ... 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 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. ... (Pg. 23) This is something we all go through in life, everyone at one point or another is overly self-conscious about their appearance and lets it get to them. The truth is it really doesn't matter as long as your own appearance pleases you; don't worry about it pleasing others. ... Willy goes to see his boss Howard his boss about gett...

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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. ... An example of Willy's shift from fantasy to reality is during his conversation with his wife about the Chevy. ... Later, however, they are discussing some bills that were paid, and when told about the bill to get the Chevy's carburetor fixed, he says: "That goddam Chevrolet, they ought to prohibit the manufacture of that car" (text, page 1020.) ... Willy is concerned about his image. ... The money from his death, however, ...

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In both writings, Tillie Olsen's I Stand Here Ironing and Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman, the plots center around the problems of a child. ... Like Emily, in "Death of a Salesman", Biff is a young boy who is not well prepared to stand on his own feet in the life because of his father's inadequate advisories. In Death of a Salesman, Biff is a young, pessimist and a lazy person. ... These words show how Biff is hopeless about his life. ... "You ought to do something about her with a gift like that-but without money or knowing how, what does one do?"...

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The death of Willy Loman was tragic and he was also a fool. ... All of these factors helped with Willy's mental undoing and ultimately his death. ... This shows his confusion about why he drove 4 hours back to New York. ... Willy back pedals and said, "Well, I-I did- about a hundred and eighty gross in Providence. ... Willy never learnt that life isn't just about money, power and respect....

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