When I was a young kid, I was like a spoiled brat, stubbornly insisting on keeping one foot firmly wedged in the closing door of Paradise.

As the brilliant light of that paradisal dawn departed from my world on its unceasing westward journey, I refused to believe that Paradise was over for me, at least not until the fat lady began to sing.

But then, way back in 1960, I sat beside my Mom on a shiny yet already outdated little post-war twin-prop 'aeroplane' bound for Toronto.

The smiling and impeccably pageboy-haired stewardess distributed little plastic twin-propped replicas of the airship she was so proud of to all the jubilant kids on board, along with new Life Magazines filled with photos (many in FULL COLOUR) of the laughing JFK and Jackie.

The dour, staid, and grim Fifties were over. Prosperity and the American Dream had RETURNED.

The changes in the families we knew were evident. Their lives suddenly became faster. Everything had to be New, Newer, or, if you worked hard enough, NEWEST. Everyone suddenly laughed more loudly. Togetherness became passé.

But life suddenly felt EMPTIER. Love, caring, and honesty became much less visible.

The American Dream was back, and the simple, magical dreams of our childhood were swallowed up in the new world of fast, cheap plastic entertainment and values.

We kids felt cheated. We had LOST something precious and极其重要的. And just as suddenly, WE felt lost.

Now, Willy Loman wanted his son, Biff, to care, but to care about the American Dream, not its core values. Ironically, those lost values were now clearly shown in his boy's innocent love, written all over his young face, the simple love of children everywhere.

Willy's values had been gradually and insidiously displaced, falling under the cheaply smiling protection of the Almighty Buck. "Radix malorum est," as Chaucer put it.

This is how parents fail their kids, through a displacement of their deepest values. Then evil begins.

And value displacement breeds alienation, folks. Cheap lives breed cheap kids. It's that simple.

Instead of finding rest in the love of our families, we start constantly hankering after that eternal carrot dangling from the string.

You know, as a kid myself, I witnessed FAR too much of that.

So, as adults, my wife and I decided to scale back our lives, to SIMPLIFY things. We haven't owned a car in nearly thirty years, and we're happier. That's a start.

The other thing I realized was indispensable is Faith. Because if you haven't been continuously nurturing that, one day your world will crumble, just as it did for Willy's son when you see that you've always just been sold a bill of goods by the outside world!

But if your Faith is intact on that day, it will serve you very well indeed. For THEN you can relax and pull back your tightly wedged foot.

For that passageway to Heaven will finally OPEN WIDE AGAIN. Why? Because, as the Blessed Virgin famously said to Angel Gabriel - Esurientes implevit bonis Et dives dimissit inanes!

This article is a must-read for anyone with any connection to the theater. It is simply a classic, and rightfully so. The play is filled with great lines that are both memorable and impactful. The angst and emotion portrayed in the story add depth and authenticity to the characters and their experiences.

It takes the reader on a journey through the lives of the characters, making them feel as if they are a part of the action. The themes explored in the play are universal and relatable, touching on love, loss, and the human condition.

Overall, this is a work of art that has stood the test of time and continues to be relevant and engaging today. Whether you are a theater enthusiast or simply someone who enjoys a good story, this play is sure to leave a lasting impression.

And here is the rewritten and expanded English version:

The story of that anxious person who had false dreams.

It was extraordinary and, for me, extremely touching.

It was a reminder of many memories, pains, and feelings.

That anxious individual seemed to be constantly haunted by false dreams that clouded their perception of reality.

Their experiences were a complex web of emotions that intertwined and left a lasting impression.

Each memory and pain was like a thread, weaving together to form a tapestry of their inner world.

The story of this person's false dreams and the associated feelings serves as a powerful reminder of the fragility of our minds and the impact that our dreams and emotions can have on us.

It makes us reflect on our own lives and the times when we may have been misled by our own false dreams or overcome by powerful emotions.

Overall, it is a story that has the potential to touch the hearts of many and make us think deeply about the human condition.

I didn't like this play upon my initial reading. That was during a college class in the mid-1980s. All that I could recall of it was

a rather vague feeling of dislike, with almost no specific details remaining in my mind. Maybe I was overly distracted by a bustling social life, or perhaps it was something I was smoking at that time. Or maybe it was a poorly taught class (the fact that I can't remember the instructor is an indication that they weren't one of the outstanding ones in my educational journey). Could the play be better than I remembered? A reread seemed in order.

Death of a Salesman is a classic by one of our greatest playwrights. I understand why it has been so frequently taught. It's a grand tragedy scaled down for the common man, a scathing critique of boosterism and the American Dream, a parable of delusion versus self-awareness. It practically shouts out its significance. However, the problem is that I still didn't enjoy it much. It's pedestrian melodrama with characters that failed to capture my imagination or evoke my empathy. The scenes of Willy's interior thoughts and flashbacks were rather distracting. They jolted me out of a work that I was already not fully engaged in.

Death of a Salesman does have its moments. Biff's eventual awakening to self-awareness was powerful, and it was a part of the play that I thought worked well. But I don't consider this to be one of Miller's better plays (I've read eight so far, and I would rank this near the bottom). The story and characters are simply too limited to match its tragic theme. Perhaps it should be read as a cultural artifact, but, darn it, I hope they've stopped making kids read this thing!

\\n  A small man can be just as exhausted as a great man.\\n

There is indeed a certain wisdom in waiting until later in life to read particular books. The trials and tribulations of Willy Loman would have held little significance for my younger, more impetuous self.
Now, however, the copious amount of time Loman spends reminiscing about his glorious past truly resonates with me.

Memory has an uncanny ability to magnify everything, making it appear larger, more vivid, and better than it truly was.
People often have a propensity to fixate on the past when the present fails to meet their expectations, and Willy Loman's present situation is almost as desolate as it could be.

What words are left to utter when your boss's son has the audacity to call you "kid"? What actions are you supposed to take when the children who once idolized you now regard you with a blend of frustration and pity?

\\n  A salesman is got to dream, boy. It comes with the territory.\\n

It seems that Willy Loman's dreams are both his salvation and his downfall. They keep him going in the face of overwhelming odds, yet they also prevent him from seeing the reality of his situation clearly. As I read about his struggles, I can't help but feel a sense of sympathy for him. He is a man who has given his all to a profession that has ultimately let him down.

Despite his flaws, there is something admirable about his unwavering belief in the American Dream. Even in the face of failure, he continues to strive for success, convinced that it is just around the corner. This determination, while perhaps misguided, is a testament to the human spirit and its ability to persevere in the face of adversity.

Performance of power display;

Nostalgia and the story of a lost dream.

0 - I discovered and understood what a "capacity" a display text can be; Arthur Miller has provided what he should and has excelled in this presentation. This text is an attempt to express this state of existence and "dwelling in existence."

Specifically, there is a certain kind of spoilage in the text. If you are very sensitive, be careful.

1 - The story is about the "American dream." From movies, politicians, and all sources of power in the United States, they have created an image, an image of a society in which we will achieve everything we desire and just have to desire it to be given to you! There are thousands of finer points than this, which is not the subject of discussion here.

So the problem is that the dream has been sold, and families and people are the buyers of this meta; of course, the meta that I can't even describe. The happiness with these coordinates is just like a lottery that we all know we have no chance of winning, but what if we win. Here, "but if" has been introduced, and everything has taken on the color of fate, a fate that is wrongly written in the script of the city's destiny; fate (especially market fate) is helpless and without taste. Can life be gambled on this lottery? Miller does not speak of the possibility of gambling (almost all of us live this hope and have bought the lottery ticket). Miller will say about softening the hand with this doomed fate of failure: Miller writes the drama of failure.

2 - The story is this: We have an American family. A father who is a salesman and a wife who loves her husband. This family also has children. It is very simple. The father and mother are interested in seeing their common living situation and the happiness of their children in life; "a beautiful but illusory desire." It fails. The father has taken on installment and loan debts and is burdened (some slightly neurotic behaviors also emerge). The sons of the family have not reached the dream that was imagined for them. This family has fallen apart because that lottery ticket did not win, and the "image of the future" has been erased, and this is where "nostalgia" comes in. To escape from the present situation where there is no longer a look at the future, we take refuge in the past, and not just any past, but a past that has become nostalgic.

3 - Here we come to the foundation from the form and structural conditions of the effect. The momentary understanding that the existence of "understanding the effect" occurred for me depends on the understanding of this logical sequence. In reading, we first encounter the structures and forms of the effect and gradually try to complete the totality that we understand as the effect. In this path of understanding, which will go forward continuously and of course discontinuously, we try with guesses and complete the literary/display effect between the lines. No effect is complete. If it were complete, there would be no need for a reader; we are here to understand the effect and complete it with this understanding. That is, the story of the reader's understanding is in the process of interpreting the text. Of course, the text with its structure, narrative, foundation, and other elements limits the possible states of this understanding; this is where the wild interpretation of an effect can be criticized. In short, the reader's understanding of the effect is essential and completes the text, but this does not necessarily mean that the meaning of the effect is only and exclusively from the side of the reader. The effect and the author of the effect have limited the possible interpretations (the ideas in this section are very much under the influence of Wolfgang Iser's book "Texts and Readers").

In a good literary and display work, we must go from the form and literary hints to the meaning of the effect. Very simply, something that first presents its own content and foundation is not a literary text and effect and can only be a "statement and manifesto." Perhaps this is the path where it can be shown that the form of the artistic effect is important, and even if there are foundations in the effect that are contrary to ethics, justice, and values of this kind, artistic merit can be derived from it (of course, this does not mean neglecting the political-ethical criticism of works, and for me, one of the most attractive parts of studying literary texts is this escape from oneself that literary texts create for us to understand society and history).

4 - In "Death of a Salesman," what wars has Arthur Miller used? It is better to say, what war has not been used in this text? That is, there are so many essential points, techniques, and formal characteristics in this display text that it is really amazing; the important point is that all this richness of the effect has not come from outside the effect and has been executed very well. Well, let's go back to the main topic :))

One of the hints of flashback/return to the past is used. The family is in a state of collapse, and there is no existing future. Everything is in a state of turmoil, and here the nostalgic memory of the past will give a turn. These bitter moments of the present, the memory of the first football game, the quarrels between the father and son, and such good memories are a hundred times more bitter than the pain we are currently aware of. We recall the good past to bury the ruined state of the present, and for the reader who is reading this escape from the present situation, we understand the sadness and deep grief of this situation. In my opinion, again here, the way the effect shows itself to us is very essential. In the first stage, we see the bad state of this family, and then we will see the memories that recall the good times. This situation breaks our hearts. At the moment of understanding, we realize that this grief is deeper than the one we initially thought. So we see that the issue of "how a literary effect affects us" can be very important.

5 - Almost the dialogue in this effect can be the ideal example and examples of writing dialogue in any work. Why do I say almost? Because some of the jokes, abbreviations, and relationships in the book that were represented by the dialogues, I didn't understand them as they should be, and perhaps the reason for this is the differences between the American world and our world; perhaps.

6 - Arthur Miller knows the stage, the age, the lighting, the acting, and in short, the "capacities" of the theater. A writer who knows the capacities of the theater can give a display text that will strike at the heart of the literary and narrative text. Miller's uses in this effect have given such a powerful effect to the theater that it is amazing!

7 - I needed to return my own work to the vast world of plays again, and Miller, with the seriousness he created, returned power to the world of display.

8 - Let's go for the finals :).

I don't think you need my probably-proof-of-reading-too-much-into-things type of analysis.

So, I'm just going to say that initially, I thought I hated this book.

However, as I thought about it a little more, I came to a realization.

I understood how emotional it ultimately was.

This book taught me a valuable lesson.

It showed that both holding on to a dream version of who we want to be and giving up on our dreams too early can have a negative impact on our lives.

In fact, it can and will ruin our lives.

We need to find a balance between pursuing our dreams and being realistic.

We can't hold on to an idealized version of ourselves that may never come true, but we also can't give up too easily.

This book made me think about my own dreams and how I'm approaching them.

It was a thought-provoking read that I'm glad I didn't judge too harshly at first.

When I was 16 years old, I had the opportunity to read "All My Sons" by Arthur Miller as part of my English GCSE curriculum. Additionally, I watched the film version of "Death of a Salesman." At that time, I naively thought that it was just a lot of unnecessary drama. However, looking back, I realize that Arthur Miller's plays, especially "Death of a Salesman," deal with the complex and often difficult clash between working and family life.

This play presents the story from Willy's perspective, showing the gradual disintegration of a family. It explores themes such as failure, disappointment, and the pursuit of the American Dream. While it may not immediately engage younger readers who may struggle to relate to these themes, it has a profound impact on those who take the time to understand it.

After finishing the play, I was left with a sense of sadness and a deeper appreciation for the power of Miller's writing. The story hits too close to home for many, highlighting the sacrifices and hardships that come with trying to balance work and family. Overall, "Death of a Salesman" is a thought-provoking and emotionally charged play that continues to resonate with audiences today.

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Additional points
The play's themes are universal and can be applied to different cultures and time periods.
The characters are well-developed and complex, making them relatable to a wide range of audiences.
The use of symbolism and imagery adds depth and meaning to the story.

After finishing
Review TBC. Too close to home, this play is so sad.

A low-volume and smooth exhibition that is the story of an old man's life. He has built his life and family on lies and fantasies and is facing situations similar to dementia. During these situations, memories of the past are recounted and converge to the present time.

The climax of the story and the peak of the emotional transfer of the text is in the fifth part, which is the conversation between Willy and Biff, and it is the real debate of love and hate.

I surely must have read this classic in high school, but for the life of me do not remember it. Didn't even remember what poor Willy sold until I picked up this wonderful little Penguin copy of the screenplay. I know I've said it before, but I love Penguin books. They have the coolest book covers!

Anyway, now I've read it and won't likely forget it. And, yes, poor Willy Loman. He is a lost soul and an aging 63-year-old salesman who has spent his sorry life traveling from state to state selling (or trying to sell) women's hosiery ultimately in search of the American Dream. He has a house, now boxed in between two tall brick buildings, a somewhat nagging wife, Linda who loves him, and two grown sons, one, Biff, a realist and Happy who, well, just seems to be there.

DEATH OF A SALESMAN so expressively defines the lost, disappointing and just plain worn out living of a man in a world of unrealized dreams. The reader can just feel his anguish and desperation for wanting more, to have accomplished more as a proud, hardworking (?) family man who has served the same company honorably (?) his entire life, but is now being put out to pasture. (The prose makes us question Willy's conversations and sanity from beginning to end.) First published in 1949, DEATH OF A SALESMAN is a dark and depressing look at the downside of not being able to cope when all does not go according to plan. Although written with an abrupt (sometimes confusing) flashbacks throughout the story, it still earns 4 Stars for this lover of old screenplays.

**The Enchanting Marilyn Monroe and Her Dramatic Reading**

Marilyn Monroe, that captivating figure, is seen here reading a drama.

She had a tumultuous life, and her relationship with Arthur Miller was one of the most talked-about.

Arthur Miller's charm for me lies in two fundamental points. Firstly, his connection with the beautiful and ever-enigmatic Marilyn Monroe. Despite his betrayal of her, there was something about her that still lingered with him.

The second point is that he was one of the few whom Naguib Mahfouz was eager to meet during his visit to Cairo. Mahfouz himself went to meet him, which shows Miller's significance.

Miller is associated in my mind with beauty, especially due to his connection with the characters he loved. When I read his famous drama "Death of a Salesman," I found it to be truly outstanding. It is a realistic and brilliant piece of work that has etched Arthur Miller's name in the global literary consciousness, and I believe he deserves it.

His work about a salesman named Loman delves deep into understanding human nature, making us realize that this is just one person, yet we can see the entirety of humanity in him.

Miller is a masterful writer. No matter how the times change and events unfold, he remains able to hold onto the threads of his stories.

As always, the art of drama is a difficult and strange one. If a writer has talent, you can feel a great warmth in his work. If not, you will directly dislike it. And here, I find the warmth that Arthur Miller brings.

In conclusion, it is a great work that deserves the acclaim it has received. And yet, Arthur Miller goes to hell for his betrayal of Marilyn Monroe. :D :D

I really like shows, but I don't know why I couldn't establish a connection with this show :(

I gave up halfway, so I don't have a particular opinion about it.

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The memorable parts of the book:

A person struggles for a lifetime to buy a house. After all that struggle, he becomes the owner of the house, but there is no one to live in the house.

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How shameful it is that a person in his thirties and forties has not had a proper and accountable life.