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Death Of A Salesman - Characte - College Paper

Death Of A Salesman - Characte

Death of a Salesman - Willy Lomans tragedy is due more to his own
flawed character than to societies flaws
Advancements in science throughout this century have led to
tremendous advancements in industry. Advancements in industry,
however, have not always led to advancements in living. For
some, society has created mass wealth. For most mass society has
created a standard of living unparalled throughout histort. For
Willy Loman, however, mass society has created only tremendous
greif and hardship, agravated by the endless promise. For these
reasons, his tragidy is due more to societies flaws than to the
flaws in his own character.
Willy Loman was host to many flaws and ...

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comprises the dreams
of man. Sometimes, this can drive man to great things, sometimes
it can drive a man to ruin. Willy was driven to the latter.
(Not his own greed for he was a simple man with simple dreams,
but by the greed of others.) The developers who took away the
sun and gave birth to shadows, his boss who reduced him to
commission and his sons which reduced him to a failure.
The next largest flaw in society is a lack of compassion.
This could be as a result of almost overwhelming greed, the main
culprit being big business.

"I'm always in a race with the junkyard! I just
finished paying for the car and it's on it last legs. The
refrigerator consumes belts like a goddam maniac. They time
those things."(Act 2, page 73, lines 16-19)

Willy's belief in this statement drew him to believe that
big business lacked compassion. It is because of this that he
is abandoned by Biff and disowned by Happy, left babbling in a
toilet. It is this flaw which allowed him to die ...

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Added: 1/25/2006 10:09:20 PM
Category: Book Reports
Type: Premium Paper
Words: 560
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