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. ... The "American Dream", a universal and common theme among American literature, is very evident in "Death of a Salesman. ... "Death of a Salesman" offers many valuable morals as a result of its themes. ... "Death of a Salesman" presents and elaborates upon two extremely important morals that readers shall value. Although the characters in "Death of a Salesman" have good intentions, they falter....

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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. ... Unlike those who surround him, the old salesman fails to achieve the life he has always visualized. ... Using Loman as an example, the salesman never accomplished what he intended to by using his personality. ... The salesman is too driven by his needs of self-fulfillment to see the reality of life...

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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. ...

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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. ...

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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. ...

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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. Willy suffers from self-delusion and is obsessed with the desire to succeed. Willy's actions strongly influence his family, which contributes to th...

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If we look at New York City, it is a fast paced, very stressful and very socially ranked area. Everyone is trying to reach the top of the "food chain" in a way. Same thing goes with all of the books that we have read so far. All the books we have read so far. New York being the City that it is puts ...

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In Death of a Salesman, the central character, Willy Loman, suffers great misfortune due to his denial of reality. ... "I even believed myself that I'd been a salesman for him! ... 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 Sal...

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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. ... In Death of a Salesman, Arthur Miller does an impeccable job of filling the awakening that Biff experiences with so much suspense, and making it so very climactic. As a result, Arthur Miller not only creates a very powerful work, but seals Death of a Salesman as being one of the greatest works of its kind....

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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. ... The father-son relationship from Death of a Salesman was ruined during Biff's senior year. ...

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