Death of a Salesman
Film Analysis
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Mrs. Vanderhyden
Mrs. Vercelote
English 3 - Period
Thesis
Theme Analysis
Conflict
Man vs Self
Characterization & Quest for the American Dream
Ben Loman
This being Willy's brother talking about how he achieved the American Dream is just another flashback Willy has and frustrates Willy as to why he hasn't accomplished his dreams.
Biff Loman
"Well, I spent six or seven years after high school trying to
work myself up. Shipping clerk, salesman, business of one kind or another. And it’s a measly manner of existence. To get on that subway on the hot mornings in summer. To devote your whole life to keeping stock, or making phone calls, or selling or buying. To suffer fifty weeks of the year for the sake of a two week vacation, when all you really desire is to be outdoors, with your shirt off. And always to have to get ahead of the next fella. And still — that’s how you build a future" (Miller 22).
This in the beginning of how Biff feels that you "make it" in the world.
Willy Loman
Willy is telling his sons that he has tons of friends, business associates, all over New England and they will take care of him and his boys and buy whatever it is he is selling. He is also saying that he has lots of friends and if you have lots of friends, you are successful in your life. This we learn is untrue at the end of the play.
Symbolism
Rubber Hose
Seeds
Stockings
Conclusion
Works Cited
Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman. Prod. Robert F. Colesberry, Ruth Morley, Tony Walton, Alan D'Angerio, Bob Laden, John Kasarda, Robert J. Franco, Rita Ogden, and Nicola Victor. De. Dir. Volker Schlöndorff. By Alex North, David Ray, Michael Ballhaus, Mark Burns, Danny Michael, Fred Steiner, Kenneth Wannberg, and Kenneth Wannberg. Perf. Dustin Hoffman, Kate Reid, Stephen Lang, Charles Durning, Louis Zorich, Jon Polito, Linda Kozlowski, and John Malkovich. CBS Presents, 1985. DVD.
Miller, Arthur. Death of a Salesman. New York: Penguin Books, 1986.