Death Of Salesman By Miller Description Essay, Research Paper

Death is such a contradicting situation. It is always a sad event, but in some

perspectives it may or may not be a joyous event. Not to say that death should

be celebrated, just to point out that life may have been a more dramatic

experience. For my first novel in G.T. I read Death of a Salesman, a play

written by Arthur Miller. Arthur Miller was born in 1915, in New York City. His

parents were well To do until the depression. He attended college where he won

three drama prizes. Death of a Salesman was his their Broadway play. The play

Death of A Salesman was an extremely confusing play, it was a dialogue between a

family of people. There were numerous flashbacks used to illustrate things that

happened in the past. The overall purposeof the flashbacks was to describe the

situation that Willy Loman, the main character, was dillusional. I feel that in

this the characters of this book are well described. The author describes Willy

was an average man with a somewhat normal life. His wife Linda is loving and

like any woman she sticks by her man. Happy and Biff are Willy and Linda?s

sons. The play takes place when Biff and Happy come to visit their parentsfor a

couple of days. The play is reality that most books and movies do not display.

It shows an average american family struggling to get by. In the play it is

apparent that the characters have strong dreams and aspirations. It is also

obvious that they have not yet succeeded in accomplishing them. Quite a few

events happen that prove, no matter how hard someone tries, in society things

change and it is hard to reach full potential. The authors of the play puts more

reality into the central theme of the play. People get old and begin to do odd

things such as talk to people that are not there or people that only exists in

their minds. Throughout the play Willy would have conversations with people that

he believed were there, but they really were not. Willy strived to be the best

and if he was not successful, then things were not good enough. He was ashamed

that his money supply was not sufficentenough to support his family. The theme

changed throughout the course of the book. I believe the point that he was

trying to emphasize was to never give up and all the barriers in the way will be

broken. This play has taught me the lesson that life is how one individual

person decides to make it out to be. The plays point of view was from two or

more characters having a conversation. The play suggested that in life that

certain things have to be completed in life before death is bestowed upon

someone. In this the example was that Willy had to resolve his long term bad

relationship with his son, Biff. The play will help me in my life because like I

have stated that the story or the plot may be fictional, but it could happen in

someone?s life. In other words it is reality. The word usage for the dialect

were elementary and some untasteful words were expressed. For example the word

fool is used several times. Other untasteful words are used, but they are to

untasteful to mention. The stage directions had a larger more descriptive

vocabulary. For example, when describing the house it says ?We are aware of

towering, angular shapes behind surrounding it on all sides.? The movie that

this play reminds me of would have to be a small made for television only movie

called ?The Red Door.? It is a movie about a family of six, a mother, a

father son, and three daughters. The mother, Mary works at a shopping center and

the whole theme of the movie is trying to get past the red door at the local

restraunt. In the play and the movie all of the characters are the average

family and they thrive to succeed in life. The characters in the movie all

correspond with the characters of the play. They were both set in the past when

it was a mans job to do the work and the woman to stay home. Although, in the

movie the mother does work because the father is unable to find work due to the

fact of some crimes he committed as a child. Both the play and the movie deal

very much with the past. In the play Willy?s son Biff has a resentment towards

his father because he commited adultery. Biff was the one who caught him in the

act and it devastated him. In the movie the father had childhood problems which

he took out in his son. In the movie it does have one single set, but it changes

like years. When the father and son grow up there is a strong animosity between

them that might make there relationship be lost forever. This was an interesting

play that had many high points. I enjoyed it and my favorite part about it was

the reality that it displayed. Families really do have problems and this play

illustrated this.