Death of a Salesman
Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman is a tragedy whose theme is the tarnishing of the American Dream. We, as Americans, have been conditioned to believe that beauty and charisma constitute necessary virtues rather than traits, and that appearances guarantee success. But most of us will go through our lives being "ordinary" -- and that’s perfectly okay according to most views. I am going to discuss two different views of this play. One view is Miller’s play as a tragedy with Willy Loman as the hero or the second view a realistic drama about an ordinary, flawed man.Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman breaks the mold of formulaic tragedies of previous eras. In this play he deals with middle-class people. At the opening of the play, the tragic hero, an old traveling salesman, Willy Loman, has already fallen and from the beginning was never an influential, admirable, or famous individual accept in his own mind. Even his loyal wife Linda admits that he has never been a “great man” or even the “finest” of characters. Nevertheless, she maintains that he is worthy of some attention as a human being who suffers. After all, she says, “a small man can be just as exhausted as a great man.”]
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Approximate Word count = 1186
Approximate Pages = 5 (250 words per page double spaced)
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