Thalia Bonilla
IB English
Mr. Dineen
24 February 2016
Reader Response #5:
Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman
· Use at least two pieces of evidence to support your claims.
· Make clear references to literary conventions and their effects throughout your paragraph.
Given the initial staging and/or reading of the production notes, cite and explain the importance of one of the staging elements in the play. Ex. The transparent walls of the house allow characters to ignore the presence of the “real” stage when Willy is in a dream state. (Then properly cite an example and an explanation.
The apartments around Willy’s home seem to tower over the humble home. They look like they are about to cave in on the house, and crush it. This …show more content…
The flute music creates a sort of fantasy state for the theater. It almost like a surreal feeling, like the memory isn't real, more like a dream than a flashback. The flute is almost like an announcement of the shift from reality to fantasy, when the flute starts, the truth stops. His flashbacks tend to display Willy’s prominent failures in his life. For example, when “the flute is heard distantly,” (18) Willy drifts off to the point where Biff refuses Bernard’s help to study for the math regents. This is the point where Biff starts his track to failure. He failed the regents and didn’t graduate which led him down a delinquent path. "Only the music of the flute is left on the darkening stage as over the house the hard towers of the apartment buildings rise into sharp focus, and the curtain falls” (139). The play ends with a flute, because Willy’s death is another one of his failures. He committed suicide instead of facing the music, facing his mistakes and owning up to them. The reason why he kept failing was because he didn’t take responsibility for his action, and his lies. He is a coward who runs away from his problems. The flute is the symbol of shame and wrong
IB English
Mr. Dineen
24 February 2016
Reader Response #5:
Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman
· Use at least two pieces of evidence to support your claims.
· Make clear references to literary conventions and their effects throughout your paragraph.
Given the initial staging and/or reading of the production notes, cite and explain the importance of one of the staging elements in the play. Ex. The transparent walls of the house allow characters to ignore the presence of the “real” stage when Willy is in a dream state. (Then properly cite an example and an explanation.
The apartments around Willy’s home seem to tower over the humble home. They look like they are about to cave in on the house, and crush it. This …show more content…
The flute music creates a sort of fantasy state for the theater. It almost like a surreal feeling, like the memory isn't real, more like a dream than a flashback. The flute is almost like an announcement of the shift from reality to fantasy, when the flute starts, the truth stops. His flashbacks tend to display Willy’s prominent failures in his life. For example, when “the flute is heard distantly,” (18) Willy drifts off to the point where Biff refuses Bernard’s help to study for the math regents. This is the point where Biff starts his track to failure. He failed the regents and didn’t graduate which led him down a delinquent path. "Only the music of the flute is left on the darkening stage as over the house the hard towers of the apartment buildings rise into sharp focus, and the curtain falls” (139). The play ends with a flute, because Willy’s death is another one of his failures. He committed suicide instead of facing the music, facing his mistakes and owning up to them. The reason why he kept failing was because he didn’t take responsibility for his action, and his lies. He is a coward who runs away from his problems. The flute is the symbol of shame and wrong