“What you watch is yourself, struggling against the fate you made for yourself” (Kazan 198).
“…To me, the tragedy of Willy Loman is that he gave his life, or sold it, in order to justify the waste of it” (miller 14).
Arthur Miller’s first version of Death of a Salesman was a short story which he wrote in his seventeen, Miller in his own words said that this story based on a real man who thrown himself under a train, after that Miller in his autobiography admit that he found the inspiration of Willy Loman character in his uncle Manny Newman, a travelling salesman who favoured pride over truth who has been called the American King Lear, at the same time his son Buddy is the original version of Biff who is also a sports champion and flirt with girls just like Happy Loman, so he divided Buddy’s character into Loman’s …show more content…
It’s a play consists of two acts and requiem, but dissimilar to all the traditional tragedies either Greek, Elizabethan or even the Shakespearean one, which all of them spotlights is the downfall of a noble person, on the other hand Death of a Salesman focuses on a normal, typical and usual person who is an American salesman represented every single one has the American dream, Willy Loman with his qualities represent anyone who unlike noble heroes who fall from their greatness to their ruin, this normal man fall from his very ordinary position and state, so he was in a bad condition and by his flaw go to a worst one (Helterman 29).
Willy’s tragedy could be predicted from his outrage influenced by false and wrong values which lead him to destroying decisions which also lead him to his tragic flaw that’s his preoccupation with his falsie dreams. Miller perfectly makes use of his protagonist’s feelings, especially the two contradictions anger and living in imagery, dreams to produce his extraordinary play (Abbotson
“…To me, the tragedy of Willy Loman is that he gave his life, or sold it, in order to justify the waste of it” (miller 14).
Arthur Miller’s first version of Death of a Salesman was a short story which he wrote in his seventeen, Miller in his own words said that this story based on a real man who thrown himself under a train, after that Miller in his autobiography admit that he found the inspiration of Willy Loman character in his uncle Manny Newman, a travelling salesman who favoured pride over truth who has been called the American King Lear, at the same time his son Buddy is the original version of Biff who is also a sports champion and flirt with girls just like Happy Loman, so he divided Buddy’s character into Loman’s …show more content…
It’s a play consists of two acts and requiem, but dissimilar to all the traditional tragedies either Greek, Elizabethan or even the Shakespearean one, which all of them spotlights is the downfall of a noble person, on the other hand Death of a Salesman focuses on a normal, typical and usual person who is an American salesman represented every single one has the American dream, Willy Loman with his qualities represent anyone who unlike noble heroes who fall from their greatness to their ruin, this normal man fall from his very ordinary position and state, so he was in a bad condition and by his flaw go to a worst one (Helterman 29).
Willy’s tragedy could be predicted from his outrage influenced by false and wrong values which lead him to destroying decisions which also lead him to his tragic flaw that’s his preoccupation with his falsie dreams. Miller perfectly makes use of his protagonist’s feelings, especially the two contradictions anger and living in imagery, dreams to produce his extraordinary play (Abbotson