Death of a Salesman - Miller, Arthur
Death Of A Salesman Written by Arthur Miller is about a dysfunctional family with the head of the house, Willy Loman, is the father,and being the source of the problems. Willy Loman spentmost of his childhood without a father. His father abandoned the family when Willy was three. Therefore,Willy really never had a role model on how to be a husband or a parent.Willy, his wife Linda, their two sons, Biff, and Happy, or Hap for short, lived in Brooklyn, NY where Willy had been a salesman for 34 years. He spent most of those years traveling to different cities selling for his company. The play takes place at a time in Willy's life where he starts having trouble distiguishing present reality with past events. During the raising of his two sons he made it a habit of sending them mixed messages. In one statement he would congradulate Biff for stealing a football from the locker room, and the next he would tell him how wrong stealing was.Willy was embarrassed that he was stuck in Brooklyn with a low paying job. He would make up lies about himself to cover up
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Approximate Word count = 718
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)
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