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Death of a Salesman
Title: Death of a Salesman
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 1024 | Pages: 4.4 (approximately 235 words/page)
Death of a Salesman
Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman tells the story of a man confronting failure in the success-driven society of America and shows the tragic trajectory which eventually leads to his suicide. Willy Loman is a symbolic icon of the failing America; he represents those that have striven for success but, in struggling to do so, have instead achieved failure in its most bitter form. Arthur Miller's tragic drama is a probing portrait of the
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coverage. “It does take a great kind of a man to crack the jungle” (133). Ben’s entire life shows his great success while, yet his success mirrors Willy’s failure. In Willy’s mind his greatest success comes when he kills himself and leaves twenty thousand dollars for Linda and the boys. This is a terribly ironic fate, yet it comes when Willy is the happiest he has ever been. “A perfect proposition all around” (135).
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