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Death of a Salesman
In the play, The Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller, a family struggles with success and failure. Willy Loman is the name of the father and he is an unsuccessful salesman who has this idea that everyone knows him and that he has great success. His whole family life is much distorted. His two sons, one in particular, Biff have distorted views of life and what they want. Happy has picked up his father's lying scheme and he thinks that success is waiting for the next person "on top" to die. Biff on the other hand, doesn't want to accept his father's wishes to become a salesman and he wants to go out west to work in the outdoors. Towards the end of Willy's life, he seems to be coming down with Alzheimer's and he can't face the fact that he is not well known or well liked. Success to him meant being able to go to any city and he could sell to anyone because they knew him. Willy didn't care that they were almost done paying off their house. Money also wasn't......

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