When I was reading the script, I imagined Biff as a washed out football player. From my personal experiences, I've noticed that society labels many football players with the "all brawn no brain" or "jock" description. ... In my experience with stereotypes, the actor who played Hap in the movie resemble more of a burnt up football star than the actual Biff. ... The play also reveals that Biff is a football; when Willy is asking Biff "You nervous about the game" (1364). From the first encounter with Willy's wandering mind, we can see that his prize son Biff is a football star and ...

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In every day life, families learn to set certain moral standards or values on what is acceptable to society. Honesty, integrity, and loyalty are just a few of the simple and obvious character traits that every family should aim towards. Respect towards other members of the family is very significant...

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It's a big year for Cory's football career and it seems as if things continually improve daily. In actuality, his football career has reached its highest potential. ... At this college he would play football while getting a higher education. ... Troy does not want Cory to play football, so therefore urges him to quit the team and get a job. ...

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The place where Biff succeeded the most was on the football field. ... In other words he find himself almost enclosed in the city and he cannot use his physical advantages like on the football field and translate them to real life. ...

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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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In the Death of a Salesman, the main character Willy Loman struggles to be superior to society but tragically fails because of his arrogance and stubbornness. Willy is an exhausted father of two sons, Happy and Biff, and husband to Linda. He suffers from a mental illness that impairs his thinking, ...

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When Biff was in high school, he was a star football player, all the girls swooned over him, and he was well-liked by everyone. ... When Biff stole footballs, Willy didn't think anything of it because he said that Biff would be able to practice. ...

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If he has, then he might have been able to graduate and receive a football scholarship, enabling him to go to college. Biff has been a celebrated football player at his school, fulfilling his dad's hope of being well liked and attractive. ...

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In the play, " Death of a Salesman" , Arthur Miller depicts a typical dysfunctional family. This is Arthur Miller's best-known and most important problem play. It is a symbolic and in part expressionistic, and it challenges the American values concerning success. Willy Loman is a salesman who after ...

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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. I. Character analysis 1. Death by a Salesman Willy Loman 1.Struggling elderly shoe salesman lost in fals...

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As soon as I got home from school, I quickly changed into my most comfortable pair of sweat pants and a Gators shirt, grabbed a bag of chips, and strolled over to the couch to watch some television before I had to start my homework. But to my surprise, I didn't even turn the channel, before I was c...

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Throughout the play "Death of a Salesman" Arthur Miller portrays the American Dream and how Willy Lowman and his family are trying to achieve it. Willy has been trying to live the American Dream so long that he actually believes he has a chance at succeeding. All the lies he has told throughout hi...

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Parent/Child Relationships One of the great literary genres is drama. Dramas demonstrate, criticize, and evaluate our everyday lives. More importantly, dramas accentuate the relationships built between people. Death of a Salesman, by Arthur Miller, is a tragedy that analyzes the relationships of a ...

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Analysis of "Death of a Salesman" The tragedy of a family The play "Death of a Salesman" was written by Arthur Miller in 1949. He was born on October 17, 1915 in New York City. Most of Miller's works emphasizes the common man struggling through the misconceptions and false illusions that modern soci...

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Abdul Sadiq English 30 - Ms. Werner-King Death of a Salesman - Act 1 Second Look In the first act of the play Death of a Salesman, by Arthur Miller, the concepts of irony and contradiction are presented very well. Through characters such as Willy, Linda, Biff, and Happy Loman, Arthur Miller w...

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There is no doubt that an individual's drive for success can either make or break that individual. Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller is an excellent example of how one's will to achieve can affect themselves as well as those around them. Willy Loman's drive for success affects his family, his f...

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Several authors have attempted to capture the essence of the American Dream, but few have reached the status of Arthur Miller in his epic piece, Death of a Salesman. Willy Loman represents those who have striven for success, but in struggling to do so, have found failure in the most bitter of forms....

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Truth is only in the eye of the beholder, and one can only see the truth if pride is not obscuring their view. The drama play, Death of a Salesman, was written by Arthur Miller in 1949, and takes place in New York. The main characters include Willy Loman, his wife Linda Loman, and his sons Biff and ...

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