In Miller's Death of a Salesman, Willy Loman's warped view of the American Dream caused tragedy in his family because he stressed the importance of popularity over hard work and risk-taking over perserverence. *Willy grew up believing that being "well-liked" was important to becoming a success.
Scene 1 establishes the nature of the relationship between Willy and Linda. Although Willy states exactly what happened, Linda provides him with opportunities to deny that anything is wrong with him. In this way, she attempts to protect him from seeing his own shortcomings.
This quote specifically shows that Willy misses the distinction between being loved and well-liked. Willy thinks his family will worship him for committing suicide but he doesn't think about how much his family loves him. In this quote, Linda expresses how much she loves her husband.
Stockings assume a metaphorical weight as the symbol of betrayal and sexual infidelity. New stockings are important for both Willy's pride in being financially successful and thus able to provide for his family and for Willy's ability to ease his guilt about, and suppress the memory of, his betrayal of Linda and Biff.
Miller's stage directions specifically require that the salesman's house is overshadowed by tall apartment buildings "on all sides." This symbolizes the way in which Willy and the relatively small life goals he has achieved have been overshadowed by change and development.
How does Willy's desperate quest for the American Dream resemble a religious crusade? Willy becomes so obsessed with success and achieving the American Dream that he forgets everything else, including his family. This is similar to a religious crusade, but in the wrong ways.
The final and crucial symbol incorporated in the play is the garden/seeds. Miller uses these symbols to show that Willy is living a failing life and he is not willing to accept reality. The stockings are a symbol of Willy's guilty conscious and his inability to accept the results of his action.
Linda, Biff and Happy . Though Linda remains devoted to Willy, his sons have become very distant from him and from his dreams for them. Biff, his...
Biff . Poor Happy tried in vain to win his father's attention and {praise;} his high-school refrain is 'I'm losing weight pop, you notice?' Willy...
He loses himself in flashbacks of the past. He also holds on to several illusions, giving him a vastly inflated sense of his own accomplishments....
His brother, Ben. Willy is torn between the quick success of his brother Ben and trying to make good on their father's failed way of life. Invite...
He had gotten rich, fast, by mining African diamonds. Says Ben: 'Why, boys, when I was seventeen I walked into the jungle, and when I was twenty-...
Football . In one of his many flashbacks, Willy praises young Biff for having stolen a football from the locker room. These constant mixed messag...
He discovers that Willy is having an affair. For his entire life, Biff had held up his father as an ideal. On seeing that ideal shattered by Will...
That he will be getting married soon. There is, however, no special woman in Happy's life - there is only the constant parade of women who mean n...
Bernard is a lawyer and has argued to the Supreme Court. Bernard, a childhood friend of Biff's, is the goody-two-shoes son of Charlie, the Lomans...
Passage 1 is more effective because passage 2 relies on personal anecdotes as the main evidence. Read this prompt. Create a presentation to convince school board members that district 16 should add a week-long October break to next year's school calendar, like other districts in the state.
Social media indeed played a part in the Arab uprisings. Networks formed online were crucial in organizing a core group of activists, specifically in Egypt. Civil society leaders in Arab countries emphasized the role of "the internet, mobile phones, and social media" in the protests.
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Doomsday is without a doubt one of the most iconic enemies of Superman, one of DC’s best-known heroes. Doomsday is a Kryptonian monstrosity that has only one goal in life – destruction. He killed whole planets and peoples using his immense power and his regenerative skills. Doomsday was defeated on several occasions in the comics, ...