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My idea of success is when you accomplish something that you’ve tried to complete for a long time. In the text, the author expresses how two different characters have two different ideas on what success is. The two characters are Biff and his father Willy. Towards the end of the text they began to bump heads due to this situation. In the text Willy feels that if you have money that means you’re successful because in his eyes the ultimate goal is to have money. He feels that his brother is a huge…

Willy Lohman’s Dilemma Nobody lives an easy going life, everyone has to cope with different challenges as they age. The theory of Maslow’s law has eight different steps ranging from physiological needs to self-transcendence. These different levels can be applied and related to one’s own life. In the play Death of a Salesman, Arthur Miller uses Willy Lohman to demonstrate how he did not reach self-actualization because he prevents himself from advancing psychologically by using defense mechanisms…

“Death of a Salesman” is a tragic play written by Arthur Miller back in 1949. One of the main characters in the book is a man by the name of Willy Loman. The storyline follows him on the steady decline of his life and how it affects him and his family. This man strives to achieve the “American Dream” by trying to become a well-liked salesman, but ends up dying from the stress of focusing on one thing. There are certain things that can cause someone to act drastically. Popularity is very…

Arthur Miller’s playwright, Death of a Salesman, reveals many of the insecurities and fears of the 20th century American self-made man. Miller expresses this modern paranoia through the fictional life of Willy Loman. As an elderly salesman, Willy’s career as an on-the-road salesman appears to be coming to a close. Willy hopes for stability in his later life through his past success and through his sons, Biff and Happy. The high standards that he raised himself and his sons on embodies his hopes…

The Death of a Salesman, is about a well-rounded and thriving salesman who is idolized by his family and friends named Willy Loman. Throughout the story Willy is struggling with an identity crisis and his family is suffering the consequences. After being fired he has no hope for the future and believed his image as a success is shattered. He enters a downward spiral in which he cannot accept his present and feels he has no future, except as a cashed-in life insurance policy. This causes him to…

Mikayla Harf Within both the plays Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller and Fences by August Wilson, the authors show the American Dream as a goal, something to reach for. But there always seem to be roadblocks in the way of the characters in the plays to reach the American Dream. Both plays show hope for the American Dream even though at first glance both plays might look hopeless. Biff and Rose both show hope for the American Dream even though in the beginning it may not seem that way. The…

The concept of the absent father is a notion that has endured through years of American history, one which has been thoroughly imbedded in Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman. The absent father has been a familiar and definitive characteristic in many stories, compelling a tremendous impact on a character’s decisions as an individual. In a comprehensive and full analysis, Charlene Fix’s article, “The Lost Father in Death of a Salesman”, delivers an accurate understanding of the concept of the…

CHAPTER QUESTIONS Chapter 1 1. Atticus Finch is the father of Scout and Jem Finch and he is an unsuccessful lawyer who lives in an odd street. 2. The Boo Radley place is scary to Scout and Jem because there are many rumours. 3. The narrative point in this book is from Scout Finch, and she tells the story when she is much older. Chapter 2 1. Because she was jealous of the other kids who went to school. And she was excited to learn new things. 2. Because Jem has a big reputation at school he…

“Death of a Salesman” written by Arthur Miller is a short story about two characters, Willy Loman and his son Biff Loman. At the beginning of the story, Willy and Linda, Willy’s wife, talk to each other about Willy finding a job close to his home city, New York, since Linda is worried about Willy’s because he had an accident. Willy feels happy when he imagines about the past the past when his son, Biff, was a quarterback with potential to make it to professional level. Willy and Biff have…

Should the broken dreams of a discriminated and disappointed father affect the dreams of an overjoyed and hopeful son? This is one of the main conflicts surrounding the play, Fences. Fences, by August Wilson, is set in 1950’s Pittsburgh and follows the lives of Troy Maxson and his son Cory Maxson. During this time some progress between race relations had been made such as sports were becoming integrated. However, this was before the civil rights movement and the south was still segregated and…