Death Of A Salesman
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'He had the wrong dreams. All, all wrong.'
To what extent do you agree with this assessment of Willy Loman by his son Biff?
Willy Loman was a man of 'greatness', a man who was 'way out there in the blue, riding on a smile and a shoeshine' and but was a man who 'didn't know who he was'. Above a ....
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.... to grasp and conceive the idea of Willy's dream, the American dream.
In Death of a Salesman, Willy is presented as being a man who had a chance at success, but misses it and then tries to grasp at something which he can't reach. At first, he is presented as two different people. The first impression is that he is an angry man who blames the world for his faults, he has tried to mould his children into images of himself and often contradicts himself (as shown in Act 1 where he talks abo ....
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