Abstract
This paper explains Arthur Miller emphasizes that his play was about an average person by the way he names the central character "Willy Loman," which is pronounced "low man". The author points out Willy's tragic flaw: he has lived a simple life, raised a family, bought and paid for a home, but he didn't feel he had "accomplished something." The paper relates that, at the end of the play, Willy gets in his car, speeds off ,and kills himself in a crash; his friend Charley says, "A salesman has got to dream ... it comes with the territory."

From the Paper
"Later in the scene, Willy shows more emphasis on superficial appearances as the way a man should define himself as a success: he sees it as important to be popular. He comments that the boys' Uncle Charley is liked, but not well liked. Willy is so blinded by superficial traits that in a flashback he tells Biff it's OK if he isn't a hard-working student and barely manages to graduate from high school because he's a football star, and popular, and has been offered three different athletic scholarships for college. A classmate of Biff's, Bernard, tries to get him to study, since he has to take important tests the next week, and Biff blows Bernard's concerns off. Willy says about Bernard."

Tags:superficial, success, low, flaw, crash

Abstract
This paper considers whether Arthur Miller's "Death of a Salesman" may be considered a tragedy as defined by Aristotle in his "Poetics". The paper analzyes Willy Loman as a tragic hero.

From the Paper
"In his play "Death of a Salesman", Arthur Miller tells the story of Willy Loman, a struggling salesman who must endure a life marked by failure and insecurity. There is a decidedly grim mood throughout the entire narrative, as Willie struggles to maintain a sense of dignity in the face of overwhelming despair. As a result, many readers consider "Death of a Salesman" to be a tragic play and thus view Willy Loman as a tragic hero. Yet, when critics determine if a work may be classified..."

Tags:miller, death of a salesman, tragedy, aristotle, willy loman, pity, fear, catharsis

Abstract
This paper analyzes Biff and Happy, Willy Loman's two sons in "Death of a Salesman", to determine which is more likely to lapse into his father's fate and which is redeemable. The paper argues that Biff is the redeemable one.

From the Paper
"In Arthur Miller's play "Death of a Salesman", Willy Loman and his sons Biff and Happy are all plagued by failure. Willy has fixated on imitating a successful salesman, Dave Singleman, who never had to leave his hotel room to make an abundance of sales and whose funeral was attended by many people. Willy sees being well liked as the key to achieving similar success. Encouraging his older son Biff to be well liked, Willy leads Biff to steal which causes him to be..."

Tags:Death of a Salesman, Arthur Miller, Biff, Happy, Hap, character analysis

Abstract
This paper explains that "Death of a Salesman" is about the American culture of "keeping up with the Joneses". The paper describes and analyzes the main characters in the play and explains how their values and beliefs they ascribe to help illustrate this element of American society.

From the Paper
"Willy's boss, Howard, tells him, as he fires him, that he should surrender his "false pride" and ask his sons to help support him. In fact, Happy is doing well and could help him financially, although Biff could not, but Willy will have none of it. All Willy has left is his false pride, distorted beliefs that once he was a great salesman and that once he was popular. Taking money from Happy would force him to face that he has not been financially successful. But Willy has other indications that placing value on superficial traits has not paid off. He sees Bernard, who is now grown and financially very successful."

Tags:strengths, weaknesses, accomplished, dream, wife, linda, salesman, low, man, career

Abstract
This paper explains that, although Arthur Miller's very famous play "Death of a Salesman, an allegory for the "American Dream" and his less favored play "The Crucible", a satire of McCarthyism in the 50s, may seem to be completely different, there is an underlying connection between them. Next, the author relates that the similarities in these plays are the themes of adultery, dutiful wives, and reputation as the key to life and the differences are the themes about the reason for death and to whom the lies were being told. However, the paper concludes that these plays share a common connection hidden within the underlying text. The author includes several quotations.

From the Paper
"While death was apparent in both Death of a Salesman and The Crucible, both deaths were completely different. Willy Loman expired because he committed suicide by getting in a car accident. Willy executed himself out of shame because he failed to achieve his life goals of being a well known salesman. On the other hand, John Proctor died out of pride because he refused to sign the poster that would be posted on the church door announcing him being involved with witchcraft."

Tags:fame, adultery, housewives, reputation, death

Abstract
This essay analyses Arthur Miller's play, "Death of a Salesman." Miller's play is a study of American culture in a critical context, where the ideal of the "American Dream," and the myth of individual achievement is contrasted with the failings of a family, the Lomans. Willy Loman represents both the ideological success of American mythology, and the failure of that mythology in sustaining a realistic view of life. The Lomans survive in illusions, and in this essay, the power of illusions are compared with the power of the American Dream as a myth and a false promise.

Tags:death, american, dream

Abstract
The paper analyzes the various aspects of materialism in the false values of the American Dream within "Death of a Salesman" by Arthur Miller. The paper highlights the depth of Willy Loman's obsession to adhere to the societal expectations of the American Dream and shows how he eventually destroys his family, as well as his own life. The paper explains that by objectifying the materialism (money, homes, cars, etc) of Loman's expectations toward his sons, he invariably implodes due to such unrealistic expectations in the human condition.

Tags:miller, death, salesman

Abstract
In this article, the writer outlines why it may be said that in both 'Hamlet' by William Shakespeare and 'Death of a Salesman' by Arthur Miller, the families of Hamlet and of Willy Loman drove them to their deaths. The writer concludes that
in the end, the plays both reveal how the environmental stimuli provided by those around us are often the very stimuli which push us into the abyss.

From the Paper
"In the first instance, the faithlessness of Queen Gertrude, the stern injunction of the vengeful ghost of Hamlet's father and the evil-doing of Claudius push Hamlet towards the commission of a terrible crime that ultimately costs him his own life.In the latter case, Willy's pain at seeing his son Biff fall short of his full potential drives the elder Loman to first melancholic madness and thence to death."

Tags:hamlet, death

Abstract
This paper talks about how things like the message, metaphor, setting, design specifics, performance space and a possible cast list for a mock performance of the play "Death of a Salesman."

From the Paper
"When considering different types of theatrical productions, one of the most popular and common types is the tragedy. Normally a tragedy involves the misfortunes and death surrounding a central character who is a very important person in society. Arthur Miller takes a different look at tragedy in his production of Death of a Salesman. Miller believes that the central character does not have to be of nobility or of any great importance at all, but rather that even the death of a common man can be tragic. When considering how to do a production in general there are many things that must be taken into account before the piece can move from just a script on paper to living production. Such examples of the criteria for a live production are the message, metaphor, setting, performance space, design specifics, and cast list. First, however, a brief of the plot of the story is necessary."

Tags:american, arthur, death, dream, loman, miller, play, produce, production, salesman, theatre

Abstract
This paper discusses the lives of the main families in the plays "Death of a Salesman" by Arthur Miller and "The Glass Menagerie" by Tennessee Williams. It describes the way in which the Loman family experienced tragedy because they hoped and depended too much on the belief that subsistence to the American dream would, inherently, be the catalyst that will propel them towards economic prosperity and success. It then contrasts this to the Wingfield family who experienced tragedy because they thrived in the culture of hopelessness, believing that the world in itself was too cruel and their life was an already tragic one.

From the Paper
"The Wingfield family of "Glass," meanwhile, suffered not from the hopefulness, but from the sheer lack of it. The pervasiveness of hopelessness in the family affected the lives and attitudes of Amanda and Tom. Like the Loman sons Biff and Happy, Tom failed to realize that hard work was the best recourse to take in alleviating his family's hardships and sufferings, taking them out of the tragic lives they led. From Tom's end, in fact, he showed no conscious effort to redeem himself from the fact that will always be poor and underprivileged, in the midst of the affluent lives of other people in the society they lived in."

Tags:tragedy, accountability, death