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Blood Is Thicker Than Water in Miller’s “Death of a Salesman�
Eastern and Western society have a different definition of kinship. In Eastern society, although young boys grow up, they live with their family until they get married. In some traditional Chinese families, even though sons already have their own families, they still live with their parents to take care of them because it represents a kind of kinship with their parents. In Western society, unlike Eastern, children frequently live with their parents on until eighteen years of age, and then they will live alone. However, they are still bound to their family.
In the play “Death of a Salesman,� by Arthur Miller (1915 - 2005), Willy Loman is a tragic character because he lives between reality and illusion. He is a salesman, and he believes that the great accomplishment of his life is being a salesman. He uses his mistaken belief about perfect success, which is respected and supported by everybody, to......

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