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Summary: Death of the Salesman- Nowadays American Average Man?
Review: Willy Loman the protagonist of the play „Death of the Salesman" is supposed to embody the American average man. An American average man is married, has children, lives in a house, possesses a well paid job. Hence he spends his quality time with his family, so most of American fathers use to teach their children football, baseball or other sport activities. Willy Loman the protagonist in Arthur Miller's play just seems to fulfill the duties of an American average man. Yes, he is married to Linda, yes, he also has children, two boys named Biff and Happy. Willy and his sons are footballphile. Nevertheless, he lives in a house and he seems be to be succesful as a salesman. But while you read the play you will realize Willy Loman is just a faker who is still dreaming and has not woke up yet. Willy Loman has internalized wrong values which are money, success and „being well liked". He wanted to earn respect and lost his view for the most significant values a human being should have such as being satisfied with yourself and having people around you who support and love you. The consequence of having wrong values is Willy Loman alienated himself from society, although he deeply wanted to be part of succesful people. Ironically Willy Loman is a product of society. He tried to adapt himself to society's expectations and actually lost himself in the crowd. Willy has always looked for more, more than he actually was able to achieve. Willy wanted success, money and respect which people should bring towards him.At this point I am wondering if these goals will lead individuals to become satisfied with themselves. Can people be actually pleased with money and success? Or are these aims only an illusion? Biff and Happy Loman experience whether money and success are worthy values you should set your life on or not. They both come up to a different conclusion. Happy still holds on to success and money. He believes that these values are the key to life. Money rules the world. Whereas Biff has found other criterias he wanted his life to be based on. Biff believes in his individual talent, he trusts his feelings what they tell him to do. Biff goes his own way, therefore he prefers to work on a ranch. Biff came off from what society thinks, what society expects him to do. Therefore I think Death of the Salesman has lost a little bit of topicality. Arthur Miller focuses his play especially at Willy Loman's failure in society because of his wrong values. But today I think people have enough courage to stand and speak up for themselves as Biff does by the end of the play. Our daily American and even European society is a crowd of individuals.
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Summary: My review on Arthur Miller¿s ¿Death of a salesman¿
Review: My review on Arthur Miller's "Death of a salesman" Death of a salesman is an drama for advanced readers, who are interesting in reading an American drama. The story is about an family called Loman, who are living near New York on the east coast of the United States. In my opinion the vocabulary used in the book is not too difficult. You need not look up every single word and that makes it a lot easier to read and to understand the play. The connotations at the bottom of the pages also make it a lot easier, because nearly every difficult word is explained there. So the first-time reading of the book is not to hard and you get the basic idea of what the play is about. To understand more details you have to read it again. Understanding all the detail is quite difficult. The most difficult thing to realize the different situation in the past and in the present. Things that had happened in the past are shown through flashbacks and I think these flashbacks and their connection to the present situation and to the behavior of characters in the present are the most difficult things of the play. You have to realize what feelings and what events had been in the past to understand the situation now and the relationship between the members of the Loman family. The content of the story is not that interesting to me, because many dialogues during the play are not interesting at all. During the play nothing really changed. Right from the beginning the situation of each member of the family is desperate and till the end of the story nothing changes. The "new hope" at the end of chapter one does not make it interesting. All in all the play was not too difficult to read, but the content was quite boring.
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Summary: Review of Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman
Review: In my opinion this is a really good book. The character of Willy Loman is very well presented. Miller's discription of him is well thought. This has the affect that although Willy is a very difficult character, you can feel with him in every situation. You can understand him in every depressive situation and also when he shouts to Biff or Linda. He is character in which many fathers could find themselves in some way. Every father has high expectation in his sons, but Willy is more special. His expectations are too high. But that is a problem in which many people can feel with him. That is the special thing of this book. Although you might have finished reading the book you still think about Willy's situation and problems.
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Summary: Death of a Salesman - A social criticism? (by Timo Voß)
Review: In my view the drama "Death of a Salesman" by Arthur Miller is a very popular book. It is a tragedy where the reader can see the development of the tragic flaw from the first page till the end: The main character is Willy Loman. He is a normal father working as a salesman in a firm for many years. But something goes wrong with his mind and he lives in illusions. Hereby the point is to find out what went wrong in his life. Arthur Miller shows up all the different situations that led Willy to his decision at the end of the book. He looses his job for example, he does not come along with the behaviour of Biff and he cannot pay for his family anymore. So at the end he preferred the death more than being alive ("You end up worth more dead than alive"). Willy Loman is a dreamer. Looking back to the past is lovely for him, and there are all the flash-backs in the play which underline his dissipations into the past. The flash-backs are a good way to show the people after and after what might have gone wrong in the long past, because the real set is shortly before Willy`s death. So the reader just gets to know from the flash-backs what really happened in the past, and Willy`s own ones are not conformable with the real truth every time. The hotel scene in Boston is one big evidence. Very early the reader gets to know that his oldest son Biff broke up school shortly before his finishing. He did not want to go to summer school, but why? Later on the reader gets the answer because of the hotel scene where Biff caught his father with a strange woman and he was disappointed. There are hints like this one in every scene. Many criticisers, like Eleanor Clark, wrote about Miller`s play that it was definitely the capitalist system which made Willy loosing his mind. I share this opinion because the time Arthur Miller wrote the play is the shift in the society in the later thirties. On the one hand it might be a strong critic by the author about this new system, on the other hand he just could show how some normal people could break off because of this system. A big proof therefore is the brutal firing of Willy out of his firm where he worked more than forty years, and the remembers at his brother Ben who could go out into the world trying to make his way a long time before the capitalist system came. In the end I can say that I enjoyed the play; even the fact that many questions are unanswered (particular at the requiem) does not disturb me that much. The reader therefore gets the chance to make up his own decisions and thinks about it a lot. I think that is well done by Arthur Miller as well.
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Summary: don't read if you don't want to know what happens in it
Review: I feel absolutely no sympathy towards Willy Loman. He was a horrible man who ruined his entire family. He treated his wife like an object, cheated on her, and was constantly telling her to shut up. He completely ignored Happy, and he tried to make Biff into something he wasn't (which subsequently made him incredibly unhappy). If that wasn't enough I honestly believe he comitted suicide just to see how many people would come to his funeral, not caring if it would devistate everyone who actually loved him (a whole 4 people!!). The only person I felt sorry for was Happy, because nobody cared enough about him to ask him who he was going to marry.
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Summary: Death of a salesman - Arthur Miller
Review: Death of a salesman examines Willy Lowman's life under a microscope. Willy had a difficult childhood and no father that he can remember. This is perhaps the cause of his lust to be a good father himself, shown through his constant queries of Ben his brother, 'Am I doing the right thing with my boys?' Ben is a symbol of what Willy wants himself and his boys to be, sucessful and more importantly rich. Willy, even though he claims to be, is not a good salesman. Life is hard for the Lowman family, especially when Biff the eldest son fails maths at school and cannot take up his football scholarship. Willy sees his dreams fading. When Biff returns home from his work on the farm Willy has many flashbacks to the past, he is remembering the hopes and dreams he had for he and his boys. Willy evokes pity from the reader, because all he ever tried to do was to help his sons to become great men. Unfortunately his idea of a great man did not conform to the requirements of life. At the end of the play Willy is hopeful that Biff will get backing from a former employer. However Biff was only a lowly clerk and the employer doesnt even remember him. Willy believes that Biff would easily succeed in life if he had ten or fifteen thousand dollars behind him. Willy final act of suicide is his last noble effort to give Biff a chance at the greatness Willy believes he deserves. By comitting suicide Willy intends the insurance money to go to Biff, for him to start a business. His suicide is probably the most misunderstood part of the play. It is not out of self pity, or being tired of his life. It is out of love for Biff. He wants to give Biff a chance, and even if he can't be there to see Biff suceed, he was confident that he would.
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Summary: Greatest stage work of 20th century, hands down
Review: The epitome of catharsis is felt when Willy dies. This is the inspiration for the heralded film, AMERICAN BEAUTY. If you thought the film was powerful, read the predocessor. Highly recommended.
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Summary: Perhaps Suggests Improbability of the American Dream
Review: Willy Loman, the name itself, has become an icon in American culture and language. Arthur Miller's creation lives in his dreamworld in which persoanlity and a smile can carry anyone to the top. Willy's sons--Biff, his favorite; and Happy (or Hap)--have never achieved the success which Willy has hoped for them. After an encounter in Boston in which Biff discovers that his father, Willy, is a "fake, a phony", we the reader discover that Willy has yet to find who he is. America has produced a limited number of great dramatists and their works should be read by all.
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Summary: The jewel of American literature.
Review: Probably the most important drama of American literature along with the "Glass Menagerie" by Tennessee Williams. This is an American treasure. First of all this is a tragedy in the sense of the Greek tragedy. And since the Greek times no writter had ever managed to write a tragedy of that caliber (Shakespeare excluded). The only difference is that it takes place in America in the middle of the 20th century and the characters involved are working class Americans. Arthur Miller takes the American society, rips it apart in pieces and then observes it under the microscope. Then he writes his notes on a book and from that he creates characters. Tragic characters that walk, beyond their apprehension, to their destruction in this case, to salvation in other cases. Characters so deep, deeper than life, so real, as real as life. They rip apart each others hearts through the entire lenght of the drama. Needless to say that the play has been translated in literally all languages. For example in Greece it almost has never been a year that this play has not been performed by some theatrical group. A masterpiece, an achievement of the mankind.
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Summary: If you are a salesman do not read this play.
Review: i read this play and changed my life 360 degree. when i decided to be a salesman i asked my self what will be my future when i was like Willy Loman , i have my dream but what else to make my dream true. Willy Loman looks like any one in USA and other country, so i changed my life from sales and went to anther field, i do not know why but this play affected my life, so if you want to be a sales man do not read this play.
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