Death Of A Salesman Failure Vs. Success
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later. The ways in which people deal with these personal conflicts can differ as much as
the people themselves. Some insist on ignoring the problem as long as possible, while
some attack the problem to get it out of the way.
The book Death of a Salesman, is written by Arthur Miller. It takes place at
Willy Loman's - A 63 year old once popular salesman who's lost his popularity and sales,
not to mention his mind, small house in New York surrounded by apartments.
Biff, a thirty-four year old son of Willy who has been searching for himself while working
on farms in the west to the dismay of his father, returns from the west to visit his family
although he doesn't know how long he's going to stay. Happy, the younger brother of Biff
who tries in all he can to please his father and attempts to continue his father's dream after
he dies, is glad to see him, but Willy seems strangely irritated. Willy has a flashbacks time
to time. Biff and Happy were promising high school students. Charley, a father who is
fairly successful and offers Willy a job which Willy refuses on the basis of pride, comes to
Willy's house at night complaining of not being able to sleep. Charley and Willy play
cards, but at the same time, Willy hold a conversation with his imaginary brother. Charley
has no idea what's going on and leaves. Linda tells Biff that Willy has attempted suicide by
crashing the car several times. Willy comes out of his reverie and speaks with his family
about their jobs. Happy has an idea of starting a line of sporting goods so Biff decides to
go to Bill Oliver to ask to borrow money. Willy decides to go to Howard the next day to
ask if he can work in New York so that he wouldn't have to drive 700 miles to work.. The
next day Willy goes to Howard and Biff goes to see Oliver. They decide to celebrate their
success by going out for dinner at...
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