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. ... He states to Ben, his dead brother, " That's just the way I'm bringing them up, Ben "rugged, well-liked, all around."" ... Death of a Salesman is the supposed "American- tragedy. ...

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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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In Arthur Miller's play, Death of a Salesman, the Loman family is incapable of facing reality. ... Willy, an old, traveling salesman, is nostalgic for the past. ... Willy does not realize that he is aging and that he is not as good of a salesman as he used to be. ... Willy says, "After all the highways, and the trains, and the appointments, and the years, you end up worth more dead then alive" (98). ...

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Death of a Salesman was written in 1949 at the dawn of a new era spawned by the ending of World War II in 1945. ... Willy Loman is a 60 year traveling salesman who was employed by the Wagner firm for 34 years. ... Fortunately, Charley understood the value of a man's life and offered a bit of reality to the debilitating mind of Willy, who believed a man was "worth more dead than alive". ... The failing salesman's misguided beliefs tragically continued to imprison him. ... Willy desperately struggled for answers to his failures and inability to achieve success causing him to re...

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In the play Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller, the tragedy of a common man, Willy Loman, is displayed. Willy Loman is a traveling salesman who is struggling to live the American Dream. ... Because of insurance money, Willy thinks that he will be worth more dead than alive. ...

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