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Summary: How can one not like this play!
Review: I have read many of the reviews and i must wonder if they read the play. How can someone not fall in love with the play, much less, how can they not call it a tragedy. This play is about an average man, Willy Loman, who is caught up in the American Dream. He is disillusioned because he is too prideful to accept where he fits in society. The play shifts between the present and the past, and at times it may be confusing, but Willy's world is confusing, he does not know where he is. This play is an incredible piece of American writing, because it is the first true tragedy in a long time. WIlly's death is a tragedy, he is a tragic hero, and the play is incredible. I encourage all who read this commentary to read this play, it is one that people of all social classes and ages can relate to. GO READ THIS PLAY!
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Summary: a book not living up to all the rave reviews
Review: I had to read and research two of Author Miller's books for a grade 11 English assignment. I had already read the crucible another of Miller's play's and found it absolutley brillant. I was hoping that this would also be enjoyable but was greatly disapointed. I found it to be boring, confusing and depressing. Trust me, don't read it unless you have too!!
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Summary: monotonic and depressing
Review: I've read this play numerous times, and each time the same characteristics stand out for me: this play not only maintains a dreary monotone, but it is unrealistic in its portrayal of Willy Loman. He comes off not as a "tragic hero", but as a mindless animal, raging against an invisible cage that only he perceives. There is no more honour in this than in watching a wild animal dash itself against the bars of a real cage, and no more entertainment, either.
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Summary: Anyone ready for THE REAL thing?
Review: This is REALITY at its cruelest. Not only does Miller display the emotional rollercoaster ability he is so famous for in this play, but he forces the reader to take society as she is...a cruel form of dictated rules and irony. This play focuses on the American dream gone wrong. No wonder we can all relate! Timeless and truely classic, this play offers the best and worst of American society. What more does an average Joe need? A dream and a strong pair of hands and a ton of luck! As Death of a Salesman would prove, without luck there is no chance.
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Summary: In this recording Cobb is magnificent, Dunnock even better.
Review: This complete performance was recorded in 1967, eighteen years after Death of a Salesman opened on Broadway. Lee J. Cobb and Mildred Dunnock, who play the salesman and his wife (Willy and Linda Loman), were members of the original cast. The others, except for Stanley the waiter, lack that distinction, but are quite impressive in their own right. The performance is well rehearsed; the actors know and feel the play; the listener relaxes with confidence that the power, passion and meaning of the drama are in good hands all round. Only Dustin Hoffman, in the minor role of Willy's nephew, fails to get hold of his part. Cobb and Dunnock are worth many times the price of admission. Willy would surely be a most unattractive person to live with. But the play, and Cobb, make you care what happens to him. Despite his bluster, temper, self-deception, arrogance, bullying, ineptitude, even patches of insanity, the soul comes through. Willy is shot through with heart and humanity, and it is all there in the sound and pace and pitch of Cobb's voice. Linda Loman would have been easier to like, but she has helped to create the illusion and self-deception that the family inhabits and propagates. She is also a woman of great love, loyalty and affectional integrity. Dunnock captures it all, the tone of voice that has been hopeful and supportive for thirty-five years, firmly repressing doubts and discouragement. Cobb and Dunnock seem to know every syllable, every nuance of this play as well as anyone could. They are soaked in it and masters of it. It would be great to see their performance again, but this is a splendid second-best. With a good play, words are the main thing. In this production, unlike most movie settings of stageplays, the words are all present, unabridged and unrevised. And they are beautifully expressed.
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Summary: A man's depressing struggle to fullfil the American Dream...
Review: Arthur Miller's "Death of a Salesmen" was a short but interesting play.. It portrayed a man, Willy Loman's struggle to live the american dream, but like many others was unsuccessful to fullfil it. Willy Loman is a dime a dozen, he strives to bring happiness to himself and his family, but does not succeed, for he is the working man in america. His son Biff is walking in his footsteps and in my opinion will have the same life his father had, and the same ending. Even tho this book dragged at times, stay with it. You will be rewared with a very dramatic and emotional conclusion. I recommend this play to people of all ages, so they can understand how hard and sorrowful life can be.
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Summary: Another death of a salesMAN
Review: The story of the fall of another salesman, another man fallen from the top of his game to the dark alley which is life, this due to society. Society which pulls and thrashes at him at every turn, and his own mental problems which drive him to the brink of insanity. This opens your eyes to the "American Working Man", a man with dignity and pride, a man that demands respect and lives with honor. He is not just another salesman, or worker, he is a person, a man. This is truly literature, the words and phrases are put together, like paint on a canvas, like light unto nature and make this book great.
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Summary: Best on the List.
Review: DoaS was on my 10th Grade Summer Reading list. I usually detest assigned reading, but I found this book to be very intresting. Its a little depressing, but its a good perspective on how the "American Dream" often isn't achieved.
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Summary: A book worth reading!
Review: I had to read this book and write what I thought about it over this summer for my AP English class. I really liked this book although it was somewhat depressing. I recommend this book, and the movie which stars Dustin Hoffman.
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Summary: A modern masterpiece of the theatre.
Review: This play, in my opinion is the only GREAT play to come out of America in modern times. It could be argued that Willie Loman is a born loser, and it is impossible to feel any sort of pity for him, but I disagree. The fact that Loman is not a stereotypical hero which is at the centre of traditional Greek tragedies, does not subtract from the catharsis. I put the play down and sat for a few minutes and contemplated for a while before getting on with my own life. If you have not read this, do yourself a favour.
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