Death Of A Salesman: Minor Characters And Their Affect On The Plot
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In the play, Death of a Salesman, by Arthur Miller, three minor characters affect the plot. These characters are Ben, Charley and Howard. The minor characters help the story's protagonist, Willy, develop extensively throughout the course of the play; therefore, they are key elements in the advanc ....
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.... the help of an education or job. Willy is continuously misled with delusion illusions of grandeur by Ben, as in when Ben says, "What are you building? Lay your hand on it. Where is it?"(86). Ben questions the success of Willy's sales job and states that in order to be prosperous, one must physically touch it. Ben represents the success of the Dream and functions in order to make Willy doubt the actions of hard work.
Charley is Willy's closest friend and he displays the failure of Willy Loman's ....
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