Written Assignment
Rationale
I decided to focus on a 1949 play written by American playwright Arthur Miller. The story takes place in the United Stated probably in the late 1940s and is a critique of the American Dream. The main character is a salesman Willy Loman, who’s unrealistic dreams affect the whole family: wife Linda and sons Biff and Happy. Eventually Willy dies, Biff leaves the family home, and Happy states that he wants to pursue father’s dreams. I decided to write a goodbye letter that from Happy to his brother Biff shortly before the death of the first one. This hypothetical situation happens approximately twenty five years after the events from the requiem. The letter is written in the same style in which the character speaks …show more content…
Of course I didn’t count as a family those several children I had with some women I don’t even remember. I never met those kids. I don’t know where you live, Biff, I don’t know your phone number, so I just hope that somebody will find this letter and pass it on to you.
I’m also writing to you because I feel like I’m going to die very soon. My heart aches terribly and I’m often out of breath. And I’m tired. Ever since you left home for good and Mom passed out I have been feeling lonely, so I started thinking more about everything that has happened to me in my life. I had a lot of time.
When I was younger I had all those respectable women who once couldn’t resist me. I didn’t want them, and, still, I took them and I loved it. But some time ago women stopped feeling weak at the knees when I flirted with them, so it wasn’t easy to drag one of them to bed with me. No one wants to sleep with a fifty-seven-year-old man. And girls on call aren’t cheap, I can’t afford them while paying my medical bills. I’ve been wondering lately why I could never be in a stable relationship. I longed for someone like Mom, somebody with character, with resistance. A wife, two kids and a big house with white fence, that’s how I imagine a perfect life. I still don’t understand why it didn’t work
Rationale
I decided to focus on a 1949 play written by American playwright Arthur Miller. The story takes place in the United Stated probably in the late 1940s and is a critique of the American Dream. The main character is a salesman Willy Loman, who’s unrealistic dreams affect the whole family: wife Linda and sons Biff and Happy. Eventually Willy dies, Biff leaves the family home, and Happy states that he wants to pursue father’s dreams. I decided to write a goodbye letter that from Happy to his brother Biff shortly before the death of the first one. This hypothetical situation happens approximately twenty five years after the events from the requiem. The letter is written in the same style in which the character speaks …show more content…
Of course I didn’t count as a family those several children I had with some women I don’t even remember. I never met those kids. I don’t know where you live, Biff, I don’t know your phone number, so I just hope that somebody will find this letter and pass it on to you.
I’m also writing to you because I feel like I’m going to die very soon. My heart aches terribly and I’m often out of breath. And I’m tired. Ever since you left home for good and Mom passed out I have been feeling lonely, so I started thinking more about everything that has happened to me in my life. I had a lot of time.
When I was younger I had all those respectable women who once couldn’t resist me. I didn’t want them, and, still, I took them and I loved it. But some time ago women stopped feeling weak at the knees when I flirted with them, so it wasn’t easy to drag one of them to bed with me. No one wants to sleep with a fifty-seven-year-old man. And girls on call aren’t cheap, I can’t afford them while paying my medical bills. I’ve been wondering lately why I could never be in a stable relationship. I longed for someone like Mom, somebody with character, with resistance. A wife, two kids and a big house with white fence, that’s how I imagine a perfect life. I still don’t understand why it didn’t work