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A 6 page research paper that looks at Miller's brilliant characterization in Death of a Salesman. The character of Willy Loman, in particular, has come to represent the oppressed worker, who is ground up in the corporate mill. However, Miller's characterization goes much deeper than merely attending to Willy's working persona, he also brings into the societal forces that create Willy's ideas of what constitutes masculinity, and shows how the root cause of Willy's situation is his tremendous and deep-set feelings of inadequacy. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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come to represent the oppressed worker, who is ground up in the corporate mill. However, Millers characterization goes much deeper than merely attending to Willys working persona, he also brings
into the societal forces that create Willys ideas of what constitutes masculinity, and shows how the root cause of Willys situation is his tremendous and deep-set feelings of inadequacy
that stem from his fathers abandonment when he was a toddler, which meant that he never had a proper male role model. Death of a Salesman is a modern
day tragedy. Robkoff point out that, among other things, "tragedy dramatizes identity crisis" and the root of such crises are "feelings of shame" (48). Arthur Millers "Death of a
Salesman" concerns the final days in life of Willy Loman, a salesman who is somewhere over sixty and who has spent the vast majority of his adult life on the
road representing the company he works for to its various and far-flung clients. His health is beginning to fail. The play opens with Willy returning to his Brooklyn home
because he kept losing control of his car en route to New England to make his rounds with his customers. His loving wife Linda suggests that Willy talk to his
young boss, Howard Wagner, about easier sales work in town. However, it soon becomes apparent that Willy is to be discarded by his company, like the husk of an
orange that has had all the juice sucked out. His dreams of glory, of material grandeur, will never materialize, for himself or his sons. It is clear that his sons
will never make much of themselves because he passed on to them his false sense of values. These are, namely, that popularity and material success are suitable goals for life.
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