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Death of a Salesman, by Arthur Miller, gives us an insight on the life of someone who was deceived by the American Dream. Willy loman, a salesman, allowed himself to be consumed by this misleading pursuit of success. His consistent devotion to this flawed dream ultimately took a toll on Willy’s mental health, incapacitating his ability to accept his past. Willy Loman is a salesman with many years of experience and raised two sons with his very supportive wife Linda. Linda understands how…

Transitions are changes which may by intentional or inevitable and they create and disconnect relationships, due to new perspectives. Transitions are explored within the drama Educating Rita by Willy Russell and the collage picture book “Windows” by Jennie Baker. The drama explores transitions through the relationship between Rita, a working class women and Frank a university professor, as Rita strives to break free of the class boundaries that restrict her and become educated, allowing her to…

In the play Death of a Salesman, Willy Loman has several characteristics of a tragic hero. Willy reacts to characters in the present, while simultaneously responding to different characters and different situations in the past. The result is Willy's common behavior: contradictory, somewhat angry, and often obsessive. Willy Loman is a supporter of the American dream and believes anyone can go from rags to riches. He has been able to make a living as a salesman for the past 35 years, but recently…

Izzy, Willy- Nilly by Cynthia Voight is about a fifteen year old girl named Isobel “Izzy” Lingard who is a pretty and popular high school girl up until the night she went out with Marco Griggers. Izzy went to a party with Marco, a senior on the football team, and he had been heavily drinking that night. Izzy went against her better judgement and decided to have Marco drive her home despite his intoxicated state. This ride home ended up with Izzy ultimately losing half of her right leg which…

Salesman” by Arthur Miller details the last two days of William ‘Willy” Loman, a sixty-three year old salesman’s life. The plays shows Willy’s private conversations about his past and present, which all lead up to him eventually committing suicide. Willy Loman’s life philosophy would be best summed in a quote by Calvin Coolidge, a former president of the United States, “The chief business of the American people is business.” Willy took pride in being a salesman and earning a name for himself…

hallucinations and the present. The protagonist, Willy Loman is introduced to the readers as an ambitious salesman who is not successful. Willy fails to understand his reality so he creates a fantasy world to disguise the fact that his life is a failure. The play revolves around the last days of his life when the real world destroys his dreams he had for his family and himself. He ends his life realizing he failed as a businessman, husband, and father. Willy delusions include his beliefs that…

represents how our expectations can be the death of us. Biff, who is the son of Willy, depicts freedom and light as he reminds his father that money doesn’t define him, though Willy is isolated and a prisoner to his dark and twisted mind. “The Death of a Salesman” parallels “Allegory of a Cave” because it expands on the idea of being chained to see a shadow or a tiny glimpse of a bigger picture. Just like in the cave, Willy symbolizes the prisoners; shackled and chained to only see what’s…

Both Edward and Willy damage their relationships with their sons through their lying and exaggeration of the truth. Willy’s son, Biff, initially adores and admires his father as a teenager, however was jolted into seeing how his father lied to him when he realized that his father had an affair. Biff’s Godlike image of his father immediately changes, as he realizes that Willy is flawed like every other human being. Once Biff arrives back into the household as an adult, he tries to console his…

The tragic story of Willy Loman and his ultimate demise show how a person’s obsession with wealth and popularity can keep you away from achieving true happiness. The exhilarating roller coaster ride Death of a Salesman is a story based in 1950’s New York that is focused on a middle-aged man that travels throughout New England selling merchandise. Although his job may sound boring, it is his family life and his flashbacks that occur often throughout the play that keep the reader interested. The…

Remaining within Old Lines: An Examination of Daphne Berdahl’s Where the World Ended In Where the World Ended, Daphne Berdahl explores via ethnographic study the creation and evolution of identities in the town of Kella. Located within the 500-meter Schutzstreifen along the Grenze (the inter-German border during the Cold War), residents of Kella experienced strict surveillance from the German Democratic Republic (GDR) and lived with additional regulations. Berdahl presents Kella as floating…