Willy Loman, the protagonist of Death of a Salesman, has spent his life following the American way, living out his belief in salesmanship as a way to reinvent himself. But somehow the riches and respect he covets have eluded him. At age sixty-three, he searches for the moment his life took a wrong turn, the moment of betrayal that undermined his relationship with his wife and destroyed his relationship with Biff, the son in whom he invested his faith. Willy lives in a fragile world of elaborate excuses and daydreams, conflating past and present in a desperate attempt to make sense of himself and of a world that once promised so much.
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4 | (5) |
| Introduction |
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5 | (3) |
| Biography of Arthur Miller |
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8 | (3) |
| Thematic and Structural Analysis |
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11 | (12) |
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23 | (2) |
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Arthur Miller's Modern Tragedy |
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25 | (2) |
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27 | (2) |
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The Tragedy of a ``Little Man'' |
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The Americanism of the Play |
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Willy Loman as an Everyman |
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32 | (2) |
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34 | (2) |
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36 | (2) |
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38 | (2) |
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Willy Loman's Material Values |
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40 | (2) |
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42 | (3) |
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Indictment of the American Dream |
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45 | (2) |
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A Failed Critique of American Society |
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47 | (3) |
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The Conclusion of the Play |
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50 | (2) |
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Willy Loman as a Synthetic Man |
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52 | (2) |
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Real Time and Remembered Time in the Play |
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54 | (2) |
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56 | (3) |
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59 | (2) |
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61 | (3) |
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64 | (3) |
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| Works About Arthur Miller and Death of a Salesman |
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67 | (4) |
| Index of Themes and Ideas |
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