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Death Of A Salesman: Failure Vs. Success - College Paper

Death Of A Salesman: Failure Vs. Success

The The book Death of a Salesman, is written by Arthur Miller. It
takes place at Willy Loman’s - A 63 year old once popular salesman who’s
lost his popularity and sales, not to mention his mind, small house in New
York surrounded by apartments.
Biff, a thirty-four year old son of Willy who has been searching
for himself while working on farms in the west to the dismay of his father,
returns from the west to visit his family although he doesn’t know how long
he’s going to stay. Happy, the younger brother of Biff who tries in all he
can to please his father and attempts to continue his father’s dream after
he dies, is glad to see him, but Willy seems strangely irritated. He talks
to old ...

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that he almost hit a kid in Yonkers. He also tells his sons of his
brother Ben who made a fortune on a trip to Africa.
Charley, a father who is fairly successful and offers Willy a job
which Willy refuses on the basis of pride, comes to Willy’s house at night
complaining of not being able to sleep. Charley and Willy play cards, but
at the same time, Willy hold a conversation with his imaginary brother.
Charley has no idea what’s going on and leaves. Willy continues the
conversation regretting that he stayed in American while he could have gone
to Alaska or Africa with his brother and made a fortune. While Willy is
having this imaginary conversation, Biff talks with Linda, the wife of
Willy who tries to protect Willy’s feelings and can’t make herself confront
him if it means hurting his feelings, and asks her about Willy’s condition.
Linda explains that she can’t bring herself to confront Willy about it. She
also tells Biff that Willy has attempted suicide by crashing the ...

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Added: 6/5/2005 03:41:51 PM
Category: Arts
Type: Premium Paper
Words: 775
Pages: 3

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