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Death Of A Salesman - College Paper

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 deficiencies ranging ...

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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 a ...

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Added: 11/15/2006 07:08:23 AM
Category: Book Reports
Type: Free Paper
Words: 556
Pages: 3

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