He plans to become a salesman like his father. Throughout the play Biff reliezes that he is not made to be a salesman and that he should work using his hands on the farm. ... Willie used to make money when he was younger and had it together, now he relizes that he has no money, he is not making any money, and that he is worth more dead than alive. ... Ben's fortune discovering diamonds symbolizes Willy's failure as a salesman. ... The title not only symbolizes Willy's death but him losing his mind and almost being dead before he was really dead. ...

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He grew up in Brooklyn, New York City, which just happens to be the setting for Death of a Salesman. ... Death of a Salesman was Miller's "most critically celebrated play" (Leone 14). ... Death of a Salesman is about a salesman named Willy Loman who is in his 60's. ... He imagines his dead brother Ben a lot. ... In the basement of the house, Willy has rigged up a rubber hose into the gas line, so that all he has to do is turn a valve and breathe and he is dead. ...

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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. ... 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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Willy as Tragic Hero in Death of a Salesman Death of a Salesman is the story of Willy Loman, a middle-class salesman who, in the course of a single day, comes to realise that the American Dream, which he has pursued for 40 years, has failed him. ... He always thought that a good salesman should be impressive. he is obsessed with impressions. ... In Death of a Salesman, Miller is not so much calling into question the pursuit of the American Dream, but the dream itself. ... He always harps on the glorious past as a popular, impressive and successful salesman. ... Through the imagina...

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Success and Failure in Death of a Salesman Throughout history society's interpretations of success and failure remain fundamentally sound. ... Many of Miller's life experiences are relative to the situations he presents in the drama, Death of a Salesman. ... In asking his boss, Howard, for a job closer to home, Willy tells the story of his decision to become a salesman. Willy credits his employment choice to Singleman and goes on to explain how Dave is a skillful salesman (Miller 81). ... Willy is unable to meet the mounting monetary demands of his life, because he is unsuccessf...

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"Death of a Salesman may center on personal and family breakdown but it also involves contradictions in national American ideals." ... On the surface, Arthur Miller's groundbreaking play, Death of a Salesman, does seem firmly rooted in the "familial arena". ... This impression of the leading character is strengthened by the first appearance of his dead brother, Ben. ... He converses with both men in the same way, making no distinction between his long dead brother and his very real friend. ... The ideal of the American family also questioned by Miller, not just in Death of a Salesman but ...

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Willy Loman is the main character of "Death of a Salesman". He is an old salesman who is lost in fake hopes about how things should be and how they really are, he kind of lives in the past. ... Willy also thinks that he is worth more dead than alive. Willys feeling of not being wanted or needed by his job or his family and the fact he thinks he's worth more dead than alive makes him try to commit suicide a few times in which he fails, until the end of the play when he does finally kill himself....

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Arthur Miller's Death Of A Salesman demoralizes the idea of this dream that everyone hopes to achieve. ... Devoting his life to be salesman on the belief of the honor of such a career, having too much pride to admit that his own destiny was in a simple career like a carpenter. ... Linda Loman cannot believe her husband is dead. ... Which is completely true, Willy was never meant to be a salesman. ...

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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. ... He doesn't manage to tell the truth, even his dead he justifies by saying that his sacrifice will save his sons, particularly Biff, because of the insurance money. ...

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The Analysis Thesis Statement: The Main character in The Crucible has both the same characteristics as in Death of a Salesman, sharing protagonist, point of view, and character analysis. ... Death by a Salesman Willy Loman 1.Struggling elderly shoe salesman lost in false hopes and illusions 2.Wants Biff (son) to succeed but is really a failure Linda Loman 1.Arbiter of peace in family 2. ... Uncle Ben is Willy dead brother who appears to him in his flashbacks and times of trouble 2. ... Death of a Salesman ...

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When he died "and by the way he died the death of a sales man, in his green velvet slippers hundreds of salesman and buyers were at his funeral."" ... Ironically enough, Miller's title of this work, Death of a Salesman, taunts Willy's desire to become successful. ... After all the highways, and the trains, and the appointments, and the years, you end up work more dead than alive."" ... For Willy Loman, being a middle-class white salesman wasn't good enough; he wanted get rich quick with out hard work, enjoying the material wealth of the American Dream. ... Willy "Low-man- ...

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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. ... 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-, by Arthur Miller and "A Doll's House-, by Henrik Ibsen both portray two people who realized their independence when they were at the end of their rope. ... Death of a Salesman is a moving destruction of the whole myth. ... Willie Loman, in "Death of a Salesman-, has lived his life in pursuit of the American dream. ... Eventually, he gets tired of her nagging him about a situation that's dead, he sends off a letter stating Krogstad dismissal. ... In "Death of a Salesman- the play ends with Willy killing himself in order for his sons to become successf...

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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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Willy states, "After all the highways, and the trains, and the appointments...you end up worth more dead than alive" (98). Believing he can be of greater value dead, Willy wants Biff to take the insurance money and make a business with it. ... Willy states he realized that being a salesman was the greatest career a man could have when he met Dave Singleman, an eighty-four year old salesman who was known and successful in over thirty states and who could make a living right out of his own house. What Willy didn't realize was that being a salesman was not the best career choice for him. ...

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"Death of a Salesman" illustrates what most people are up against. ... He is unfaithful to his wife and an unsuccessful salesman. ... In Act Two, Charley pleads with Willy, "Willy, nobody's worth nothin" dead". Oddly Willy is worth more dead than alive. ... He died "The Death of a Salesman"....

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This scenario is not present in Death of a Salesman since the nature of Willy's pitiful downfall does not evoke human greatness or potential. Death of a Salesman clearly does not adhere to classic requirements yet it does have some elements that point towards the classic tragedy. ... Willy wants to become everything Ben is, rich and confident, but Ben is also dead. Willy's father went off to Alaska to find wealth but also ended up dead. ... Alternatively, the story of David Singleman acts as an oracle in the way that it foreshadows Willy's death, "- and by the way he died the...

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Arthur Miller's "Death Of A Salesman" is a story of a common man whose misaligned ideas of success ultimately lead to his demise .Having no central figure as a role model, Willy Loman (the salesman) is torn between accepting his own failure, relying on his own son's success, redeeming himself to his son, or listening to his deluded conversations with his deceased brother Ben. Although Ben is dead, his pseudo presence ultimately leads to Willy's tragic suicide. ... His boss and a fellow salesman were his mentors. ...

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The play Death of a salesman and the novel Catcher in the Rye were written at late 40's. ... Willy had been working very hard for thirty six years as a travel salesman. ... Willy was a sophisticated salesman. ... Willy was a successful salesman in the past. ... Most of his clients were dead or retired; even his former boss was passed away. ...

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DEATH OF THE AMERICAN DREAM "Death of a Salesman" by Arthur Miller is a tragedy, which comments on American life and values. ... "Death of a Salesman" has earned Miller a number of awards, such as the Pulitzer Prize and the New York Drama Critics Circle Award. ... Death of a Salesman could also have been named "Death of the American Dream" because it shows how Willy's dream come shattering in on him and eventually died. Whether reading or watching "Death of a Salesman", the audience can relate to the tragic hero, Willy Loman. ... Willy believed that"after all the highways, and train...

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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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The phenomenon of Death of a Salesman has been the same all over the world. ... Miller's personal history is demonstrated in his sensitive and passionate writing in Death of a Salesman (Griffin 41). ...

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