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This 4 page paper uses examples from the play to argue that Willy Loman, the main character in Death of a Salesman, is the quintessential middle class man. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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person such as a king or queen, and so applying it to a working man seems a stretch. But Willy Loman is not just an ordinary man, he is Everyman,
a symbol of all those who struggle through life, and as such, his failure is a very human experience and fully deserves the label tragedy. This paper argues that because
Willy could be any working person, he is the quintessential middle class man, and his story is a story that is becoming all too common in the United States today.
Discussion There are two main points for the student to understand and use as a basis for this argument. The first is the "American Dream" and the second is the
place of generations within that context. That is, the American Dream contains within it some suppositions about the lives of the children of working parents. The American Dream is
the name given to the idea that if a person works hard, obeys the law, and tries to do some good, he will succeed at building a comfortable life for
himself and his family. (The pronoun "he" is used because this idea is an old one, when there were fewer women in the workforce. It was the job of people
like Willy to provide for his family; that is, most families had only one person bringing home a salary.) Willy has done just what he is expected to do:
he has worked hard all of this life, provided a home for his wife Linda and their two sons, Biff and Happy, and hes been a loyal employee. His reward
for all this is that hes about to be fired from his job, he can barely pay his bills and hes estranged from his sons. The American Dream has turned
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