Arthur Miller's play, Death of a Salesman examines the impact of American values and morals as to what constitutes "success" upon individual lives. ... He plans to become a salesman like his father. ... Ben's fortune discovering diamonds symbolizes Willy's failure as a salesman. ... In Death of a Salesman we encounter a family that has many problems and is led by a father who wants life to be perfect for him and his family, but Willy does not realize that no one has a perfect life. ... Willy Loman's technique of living out the American Dream in Arthur Miller's play De...

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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. ... He devoted his life into a career as a salesman knowing that he was good with his hands, but he possessed to...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

"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". ... The ideal of the American family also questioned by Miller, not just in Death of a Salesman but also in other plays, such as All My Sons and A View from the Bridge. ...

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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. ... Witt sums up his essay by saying that "there is a human type But we have not been given such a figure in Death of a Salesman. ...

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"Death of a Salesman" The play death of a salesman can be easily explained as a literary way of detailing the psychological deterioration of the classic middle class working American man. ... Throughout the play Willie is seen at his job as a traveling salesman, he is at the age of 63 and his wife wants him to obtain a job in the city so he will not have to travel anymore. ... As it is shown throughout the novel, the strong feelings of abandonment felt by Willie eventually lead up to his death in him believing that he is still working for the betterment of his family, and the attainment o...

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" Her husband Beck, a salesman for the Tanner Corporation, had bought a bow and arrow set for the children. ... After his mother's death Cody would say that Beck "left them with a raving, shrieking, unpredictable witch" (294). ... Ezra had the most to lose from his mother's death. ... While Ezra stayed at home with his mother, he disliked it and even considered death as a way out. ...

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• Grade Level: High School