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Death of a Salesman

I started reading bookrags for Death of a Salesman and by the first two sentences knew how important actually reading the play was. Of course it is called a "summary" for a reason, but you don't and can't come to know the characters without dialect and conversation, and I believe that knowing the characters is a very important part of knowing a book. Not only do you get a full perception of a character when you read the play, but you get the sense of feeling and emotion from one character to the next. The relationships in this play are all significant in one way or another, but with just reading a summary, you don't understand the entire reasons for why the relationships are the way they are or even what kind of relationship it is.
The bookrags summary definitely doesn't do any justice for how crazy Willy really was in the play. I think that the struggle between his imagination and reality played a big role in the relationship between Willy and other......

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