The play "Death of a Salesman-, written by Arthur Miller in 1949 deals with the pressure of becoming a well - liked, wealthy and successful personality by trying to follow the ideas of the "American Dream-. ... Thus regarding to the way this play was presented Arthur Miller's play is, for good reason, a classic, but its subject matter and way of connecting present miseries with past traumas can make it a tormenting one to watch. ... Excluding these points, which took some time to get used to, it was a brilliant artistic performance which is really worth seeing it and I would recommend it...

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On the surface, Arthur Miller's groundbreaking play, Death of a Salesman, does seem firmly rooted in the "familial arena". ... Miller's whole critique on the business world is also a device for revealing the breakdown of Willy Loman's psyche. ... The personal breakdown of Willy is not the only example that miller illustrates in the play. ... Even in the opening scene, Miller shows how Willy's relationship with Linda is now based on the pretence that everything is fine. ... Miller distorts these traits in some of his other characters, though, showing them to be potentially d...

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In Arthur Miller's "All My Sons," money and responsibility play a huge role as themes, as does loyalty. ... " (Miller 82). ... " (Miller 17). ... " (Miller 70). ... " (Miller 44). ...

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In order to be triumphant both in Arthur Miller's lifetime as well as in present day society, one must conquer mankind's high expectations. ... Arthur Miller's ideas on success and failure similarly concur with the viewpoints of present day society. ... In addition, Arthur Miller's father lost his job during the Great Depression just like Willy Loman does in the play. ... In Arthur Miller's drama, Death of a Salesman, he utilizes symbolism, characterization, and plot structure to depict society's acceptance of success or failure. ... (Miller 73). ...

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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."" ... In Death of a Salesman, by Arthur Miller invisible walls can be the cause of difficult parent/child relationships. ... (Miller, 1150) Willy shuns his son Biff for not being what Willy wishes him to be. ... (Miller, 1132) He has no clue that he has faded himself out of his son's lives. ... - (Miller, 1192) Miller clever use of dialogue illustrates the how the poor communication was an invisible wall not breakable. ...

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In Arthur Miller's "Death of a Salesman," Willy Loman struggles to find success and be the role model that his sons look up to him as. ... Within Jonathan Witt's "Song of the Unsung Antihero: How Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman Flatters Us", he expresses that Willy is over exaggerated and should not be considered by the audience as an anti-hero. ... I'm vital in New England" (Miller 14). ... " (Miller 57). ... " (Miller 135). ...

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In the play, " Death of a Salesman" , Arthur Miller depicts a typical dysfunctional family. This is Arthur Miller's best-known and most important problem play. ... (Miller 1272). ... (Miller 1306). ... (Miller 1303). ...

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In the short story The Death of a Salesman Arthur Miller illustrates that the Loman family does not portray the family values that most people would want to follow. ... Finally, Biff exclaims "Stop yelling at her" (Miller). ... So every time he sees his wife mending stalkings in the house he yells "will you put those things away, no one in my house will make their own stalkings" (Miller). ... Happy is almost demanding to Biff "You will tell dad that you are having lunch with Oliver tomorrow" (Miller). ... Then Biff starts to explain everything that has gone wrong in his life and hi...

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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. ... (Miller 1339). ... You mustn't - you mustn't overemphasize a thing like this" (Miller 1369). ... He's just some guy" (Miller 1366). ... (Miller 1324). ...

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Arthur Miller's play, Death of a Salesman examines the impact of American values and morals as to what constitutes "success" upon individual lives. ... Throughout the play Arthur Miller uses many symbols to represent ideas and concepts throughout the play. ... Willy Loman's technique of living out the American Dream in Arthur Miller's play Death of a Salesman, leads to very severe consequences. ...

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Both Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun and Author Miller's Death of A Salesman deal with the concept of having a dream and trying to achieve it. ... Arthur Miller's tragic drama Death of A Salesman is the portrayal of the longing for the "American dream", an extreme craving for success and superior status in a world otherwise fruitless. At the beginning of the play, Miller establishes Willy Loman as a troubled and misguided man; at heart a salesman and a dreamer with a preoccupation with success. ... Miller indicates that she is a woman with deep regrets about her life...

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In Arthur Miller's, dramatic play, Death of a Salesman the Loman family presents its self as being the perfect nuclear family as opposed to their dysfunctional nature. Even though Miller portrays Willy Loman as the main character of the story, his lack of praise worthy traits make it necessary for another to be the hero. ... (Miller 105). ...

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In the play of Death of a Salesman, by Arthur Miller, Willy was a strong and courageous man with many ups and downs. Willy, even though he was feeling down and low, rested high hopes when his family was around. Even though Willy said" people don't take to me" to Linda, he keeps the rest of the f...

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This father-son relationship is the key relationship in the play; this is the relationship that Miller always focuses on. ... The most important relationship in the play is definitely the father-son relationship between Joe and Chris all the time, Miller always emphasizes the great love between them, the audience is always being made aware of the great significance of this relationship in the play. ... Miller makes this relationship the focal point by things like letting Joe and Chris have private father-son chats, the way he always has Chris sticking up for his father, this is how the trage...

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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. ... Miller demonstrates the extremities that the Loman family goes through to achieve the "perfect American family". ...

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In the words of Baxter Miller "the mother refused to let her child march in the wild streets of Birmingham and sent her to the safest place that no harm would become of her daughter". ... In the play Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller Willy encourages his son by telling him "you got a greatness in you, Biff, remember that"(1277). ...

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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. Like many people of this country, as well as others, the Lomans strive to live out the American dream. Being well-liked, pop...

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Death of A Salesman Failure is a frightening term. Nobody wants to experience it, yet many people do at one point in their lives. Linda, Willy's wife in Death of A Salesman, by Arthur Miller, could be described as a failure. Her whole life has been centered around her husba...

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("Death of a Salesman Arthur Miller 1949 Drama") The "American Dream" is "the belief that through the pioneer virtues of hard work, perseverance, ingenuity, and fortitude, one might find happiness through wealth" ("Death of a Salesman"). ... The concept of the American Dream shown in the play Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller is believed by Harold Clurman to be divided into two meanings; the historical dream and the business success dream. ... "She more than loves him, she admires him, as though his mercurial nature, his temper, his massive drea...

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A Father's Love A relationship is a connection between two people that no one can take away or replace. A father-son relationship is a special bond in which they share the same beliefs and love each other unconditionally. In the play, "Death of a Salesman" by Arthur Miller, Miller portrays a fath...

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In Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman, Willy Loman is a textbook example of a failure as a good father in every way mentioned previously. ... As a result, his death is the final confirmation of his failed life, and reiterates everything that is stressed in Miller's play. ...

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Corruption In the play, Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller, Linda Loman's character is portrayed two different ways. Some people think of Linda as a "controlling mother figure" who is actually the one to blame for her husband and sons failure in life. Others believe she was an understandin...

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Death of a Salesman Arthur Miller believes that a common man can think, aspire, suffer: and that a common man can give his life for "his sense of human dignity." Willy Loman demonstrates such a notion. His main thought is of the American Dream. Because he knows that he is unsuccessful, Willy ...

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Arthur Miller wrote a brilliant play about one man's quest for fame and fortune that led to his demise. In Death of a Salesman Willy Loman suffers from not being able to tell what is real, and what is just happening in his mind. He never gives his family a chance to explain and always makes fals...

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The Loman Family's Inability to Face Reality Many people in America today cannot cope with the present so they tend to relic in the past. In Arthur Miller's play, Death of a Salesman, the Loman family is incapable of facing reality. Willy, Linda, Happy and Biff do not succeed as much as they w...

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