... them as potentially damaging traits, which do not lead to success as both boys are still described as "lost". The ideal of the American family also questioned by Miller, not just in Death of a Salesman but also in other plays, such as All My Sons and A View from the Bridge. In this play, the family is obviously disintegrating and Miller seems to be trying to show how ... the family, in this state, is potentially damaging. Willy is clinging so hard to the ideal of the family that it is, in a way, adding to his alienation. Biff and Happy were ... his autobiography; "It has often been sai...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate