Death of a salesman

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In, Death of a Salesman, its author, Arthur Miller, looks upon four characters. Miller uses scenes and flashbacks to compare and contrast the differences or similarities of characters personalities or actions. These scenes show how closely Biff and his father resemble each other at times, or completely differ. They show how hard Willy tries to please his family. Why Biff doesn't succeed. Also they show what a caring mother Linda can be, or it can show her unloving side. These also show that Happy was constantly trying to gain love and attention from his family, and how his parents never saw it.

The play itself is set in the house of Willy Loman, and tells the story of a salesman who is in deep financial trouble, and the only way out is to commit suicide.

The focal point of this play is Willy Loman, a salesman in his early sixties. Throughout the story we are told the hard life, emotions and triumphs of Willy the salesman. Early in the play we learn that he has recently been demoted to working for commission, which later in the play, translates into Willy getting fired. As the plot unfolds we discover that Willy had a rich brother who recently died named Ben, whom Willy looked upon with great admiration for becoming e

The Wife and Mother, Linda, has not been one to care about her boys very much. She does care for the well being of her husband and tries to convince the boys on how hard he is working for their survival. It is said that Linda will probably die within the year. And with Willy about to die himself, she won't have a thing to live for but herself after that happens. Linda has no conformation of her husbands cheating on her, but probably has clues. She never finds out for sure what has happened, but it wouldn't affect the stories conclusion too dramatically.

As we learn more about Willy's trials, Willy's son Biff also has some problems of his own, the main one being that Biff cannot seem to find his place in life. Then we are told that Biff at one point did in fact have his future all planned out. It turns out that Biff was a shoe-in for a position on the University Of Virginia State football team. However, that chance was ruined when Biff did not pass his final mathematics course. To make things worse when Biff makes the trip to Boston to explain his mathematical dilemma, he comes in the room to see his father has been with another women. This incident would leave Biff being an entirely different person altogether. He didn't even try to finish his math in summer school. After Boston, Biff couldn't have cared less what happened to his own life. Biff finally comes to facts with himself and wants to make someth

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Approximate Word count = 958
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)

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