The Tragedy of One Man. Speaks of Arthur Miller's "Death of a Salesman"

        Arthur Millers Death of a Salesman locoweed be seen as an praise of a dreamer, which depicts one mans tragic life and death as he tries to bring his family into grace. Miller does, however, also uses this mulct to dapple underlying themes and ideas. Reading Death of a Salesman from the starting point of a Marxist results in the perception that miller uses his play as a means to demonstrate the effects of a changing capitalistic society. On the other hand, a mental reading of Death of a Salesman allows the play to be seen as one mans flight from shame and his own weakened ego image. The Marxist perspective is a viable reading of this gambol but it does non truly define it as a disaster. To better understand this piece of literature as a tragedy one should observe the psychological reading which depicts the tragedy of one man.

        Many people wonder if Willy is really credideucerthy for his own death, or is he, as Luke Carrol put it in the reveal Tribune, a pathetic little man caught in an sea-puss thats too strong for him. Willy Loman is bewildered by a capitalist system which drives its men into frantic, all consuming dreams of success, doomed not only by their grandiosity but also their inseparable contradictoriness.

        Willys dreams of success are rooted in the concept of the American Dream, which is the

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idea that this is a land of unlimited opportunity in which any tatterdemalion can attain riches and any mothers son can become president (Hadomi 159). This concept of success is personified by two characters in the play: David Singleman and Ben Loman. The first an old sales man, David Singleman, who could break down anywhere and place many localise by phone in his hotel...

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