Death of a Salesman
Death of a Salesman is a play by Arthur Miller. It takes place in New York. It is about a man named Willy Loman. He has been traveling salesman for the Wagner Company for 34 years. He has a wife named Linda, and two sons named Biff and Happy. Happy lives in New York, and works in a department store. After 14 years, Biff finally comes home, looking for a job in New York. Willy is so happy that his sons are with him, that he decides to ask his Boss if he can have a job in New York, rather than New England. Instead, Willy gets fired. Willy then asks his friend Charley for fifty dollars, and Charley offers Willy a good job in New York. Willy refuses, and leaves to go meet his sons in a restaurant. Later on, after they have gone home, Willy commits suicide, because with the insurance money, he feels that Biff could be such a magnificent person. Willy Loman came back home after having left for New England one day. He is a traveling salesman for the Wagner Company. His wife Linda is at home, and he tells her how he hasn't been able to keep his mind on driving. He starts daydreaming, and his car just swerves off to the side of the road. He asks about their son Biff, who hasn't been home in over 14 years. He is visiting in New Yo
Biff screams out that he can't talk to Willy. Willy leaves and goes to the bathroom. Biff asks Happy to stay and wait for him. Biff leaves, and Happy follows. He brings along two girls that he picked up earlier. When Willy come out of the bathroom, he sees that his boys left. He leaves the restaurant, and goes to the store to look for seeds. Biff finds Willy in the garden planting the seeds. Biff explains to him that he has to leave, and he wont be coming back. Biff tells him that he has stolen himself out "of every good job since high school". Biff starts crying, and then Willy sees that he was wrong when he thought that Biff had been intentionally hateful towards him. He then realizes that Biff loves him. Later that night, Willy kills himself in a car accident. A few days later, at Willy's funeral, no one came. Willy died a forgotten man. Death of a Salesman was a great book. It was a little hard to follow, because it had a lot of flashbacks, and sometimes it was difficult to figure out what time period it was in. At the end of the book, Willy kills himself, and no one but his family came to his funeral. All his dreams about being well-liked were phony, because the truth was that he wasn't very well-liked at all. It is a book about the "common man being defeated by a society which drains the common man of his energy, and then drops him". r
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Approximate Word count = 915
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)
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