... epitome of success and of lost opportunity for Willy Loman. Willy is enthralled with the fact that Ben's success was achieved while on a quest for their father in Alaska until he mistakenly ended up in the jungles of Africa at the age of seventeen and walked out twenty-one years old, rich. Unfortunately, Willy attributed Ben's success to being rugged and well liked consequently raising Biff and Happy the same ... way. Ben's success also raised Willy's awareness ... dollar life insurance policy, he hoped would allow Biff to become the success he never was in life. The tragic flaw of Will...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... in a disturbed version of the American Dream. Loman believes that if someone is "personally attractive" and "well liked" he will receive all of the material benefits American society can offer. Unfortunately, he convinces his two sons that having these traits is more important than school work and being a productive member of society. Biff, Willy's son who was once an attractive football star ... who failed math his senior year and gave up on his aspirations, was well liked but did not succeed in society. He realizes that "I"m like a boy. I"m not married, ... about reality. Through thi...

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... to lose contact with reality. Living partly in the present (1949) and partly in the past (1928), Willy clings to fantasies of success for both himself and his sons, womanizing underachiever Happy and prodigal runaway Biff and simultaneously veils the family's hopeless financial situation. Since 36 years the small, almost fragile seeming and exhausted traveling salesman Willy Loman has been selling the products of the firm that he works ... the spectator was able to follow the course of the play properly and without any difficulties to understand. Additionally the way the play was perfor...

• Word Count: 590
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: Undergraduate