Arthur Miller's Death Of A Salesman demoralizes the idea of this dream that everyone hopes to achieve. ... The play should be seen as a whole in which the life, and death of Willy Loman shows the faulty deception of this American Dream. ... Also stating that he had all the wrong dreams. Which is completely true, Willy was never meant to be a salesman. ... Charley and his son Bernard are the only two people beside Willy's family to attend the funeral and take any care into Willy's death. ...

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In Death of a Salesman, the central character, Willy Loman, suffers great misfortune due to his denial of reality. ... It is because of this that Willy stops creating dreams of his own success and replaces them with lies about Biff's success. ... We've been talking in a dream for fifteen years. ... 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...

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In Miller's play, Death of a Salesman, he takes a low position family and exposes the idea of tragic heroes through the fatal flaws of Willy and Biff Loman. Willy, a traveling salesman, is the father of Biff. ... Therefore, he creates phony optimism for himself by thinking he's an asset to his work as a salesman, even though he gets fired and is not popular with his clients. ... He even manages to make his wife, Linda, believe his false dreams, which makes her totally dependent on him. ... Biff then tries to make his father's false dreams known to him. ...

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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. ... These are all falsity of his dreams. ... In Death of a Salesman, Miller is not so much calling into question the pursuit of the American Dream, but the dream itself. ... Despite this failure, Willy makes the most extreme sacrifice in his attempt to leave an inheritance that will allow Biff to fulfil the American Dream. ... As Biff con...

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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. ... Willie's main purpose in the play is to fulfill the American Dream. ... The saga begins with Biff revealing that he has failed math and that he must pass it in summer school to be eligible to go to his long time dream school of the University of Virginia. ... Willie viewed Biff to be all that Willie was not, and saw him as the one who would succeed the most to achieve Willie's life long dre...

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Dreams are constantly brought up by Biff who uses them to bring light to the fictitious and "dreamy" lives the family is living. When talking to Willy Biff says, "We've been talking in a dream for fifteen years." and later pleads with him to accept reality. " Will you take that phony dream and burn it before something happens?" ... 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 t...

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Willy Loman is the protagonist of Dealth of a salesman. ... But hey dont realize willy just a ordinary salesman. ... He desire to accomplish the American Dream. ... It's shows that he is extremely dependence the dream. ... He refuse to accept the fact that his dream was totally destory. ...

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However, if Death of a Salesman is truly a tragedy, one must ask what is behind the honors. ... Willy overcomes his flaw by using since Biff will not make the same mistakes and in that way Willy triumphs through Biff. ... In the case of Death of a Salesman, Miller is .. ... Miller has captured the tragedy of the American common man in Death of a Salesman. ... A salesman is got to dream, boy. ...

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Willy Loman and Okonkwo, the chief protagonists of the drama Death of a Salesman, and the novel Things Falls Apart, respectively, are both classical examples of a tragic hero as they struggle to achieve success in societies that seems completely turned against them. ... His false hopes and dreams come crashing down on him as he realizes his view of the American Dream remained nothing but a dream. ... He feels that Biff will feel no more spite towards him, and he can prove that he was well-liked and widely known as a successful salesman at his funeral where he claims people from all over will...

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In this statement made towards Biff and Happy, Willy portrays his naive perspective on gaining material wealth. ... 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. ... 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- died ...

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Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman. ... Death of a Salesman In Miller's rendition of a tragedy, we see a much different kind of tragic protagonist. ... Despite Willy's failure to meet his life goals, he clings to a fierce belief in the American dream, similar to what many people in the real world do. ... He was still holding on to misguided hope that the life insurance would provide opportunity for Biff. ... In the case of Death of a Salesman, many people in that time period were going through hard times and had tragedies of their own. ...

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