Essays on Death of a Salesman

Throughout the play, Willy has consistently been portrayed as an insecure coward. From these insecurities stems his constant need for positive affirmation from other people. Willy, above all else, seeks to be liked and admired by others. It was Willy’s meeting with Dave Singleman that convinced him to become a salesman. Seeing how many people...

In Arthur Miller’s “Death of a Salesman”, one major symbol that strongly contributes to the work as a whole would be the pen that Biff had stolen from Bill Oliver’s office, due to its significant turning point in the story and the representation of materialism, as well as the idea of the “American Dream” in...

In Arthur Miller’s Pulitzer prize-winning play Death of a Salesman, the audience is presented with the dysfunctional Loman family where most members lack maturity. This, in turn, fuels the growing rift between each member of the family. Willy, the main breadwinner of the family, perceives respect and wealth as success. Unfortunately, Willy does little to...

The American Dream is defined as “the ideal that every U.S. citizen has an equal opportunity to achieve prosperity and success” through means of “hard work, determination, and initiative.” Most people share this common idea of The American Dream, but differ on how to achieve it. In Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller, the...

Willy Loman is presented in the book, written by Arthur Miller, as a frustrated and confused old man. He is a man who lives in his own world and finding himself in denial about his entire life; past, present and future. He recalls his sons’ teenage years/his older days, as an idyllic past, which was...

Imagine a child living only under his father’s obscurity, his ideologies, believes, traits, all but the same, a very depressing way of life isn’t it? In the death of a salesman, it describes just that. A grievous play that revolves around an old man rotting in his ideologies, Willy Loman. A man that believed being...

It is very well known that if one wishes to succeed, then that one must sacrifice something in their life. Whether it be time, money, family, or virtues, some weight must be lost if they wish to obtain their goal. However there is a point where the sacrifice is not worth the reward, and there...

In these two plays we see the effects of economic enslavement. Set around the same time in the middle of the nineteenth century. The two plays depict the struggles of the average person and the immorality that happens in society. In these two plays both the leading characters, Willy and Walter, are fighting for social...

Abstract: All My Sons, written by Arthur Miller in 1947, the novel deals with sensitive themes such as self interests, social responsibilities, and conflict between different ideologies of the people. The play shows conflict between the conflict between the characters – Joe, Chris, and now-dead Larry. My research question is “How are women treated by...

All My Sons (1947) is a play ‘for people of common sense […] concealed in life’ (quote IntoToPlays). It starts in an apparently placid and undisturbed environment where the Kellers – an ordinary, white, wealthy American family – live. The patriarch, Joe, seems to be quite literally the “average Joe”, a ‘man among men’ (quote?)...