... liked. In contrast to Willy's idea of success; making contacts, being well known, and well liked, Ben took on ventures and made money; something tangible and easily measured. During his conversations with Willy, Ben always refers to "going into the jungle when he was seventeen", and at the age of twenty-one, ... the discovery of his father's infidelity. And though the event is never formally discussed in Ben and Willy's dialogue, Willy makes it clear and Ben understands what Willy is going to do to redeem his self. Ben is always talking about diamonds; something tangible that one can la...

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... for success affects his family, his friends, and most importantly himself. Many factors can contribute to an individual's success. Ben, Willy's deceased older brother has a major impact on Willy's drive for success. Ben is a shadowy figure who functions more as a symbol or illusion than he does as a character. What we ... fair with a stranger. He seems to have no time for personal relations, nor does he seem to indulge in the emotions. For Willy, Ben represents the ideal success story. Ben stated " when I was seventeen I walked into the jungle, and when I was twenty-one I walked out And ...

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... Biff is lost in the world with no light, until the end, to find his vision of the "American Dream."" Miller also adds in Willy's brother Ben whose life is not as much someone's definition of a working success as it is almost anyone's dream of success. A less noticeable character in the play ... . Ashamed to be stuck in Brooklyn with a low-paying job, Willy yearns for his brother Ben's happy-go-lucky lifestyle. Ben represents more of a dream of success rather than an ideology. In the play it says Ben went looking for their father in Alaska but made it to Africa and in the jungle he ... o...

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... "Death of a Salesman" is filled with symbolism from the opening scene. Many symbols illustrate the themes of success and failure. They include the apartment buildings, the rubber hose, Willy's brother Ben, the tape recorder, and the seeds for the garden. These symbols represent Willy's attempts to be successful and his impending failure. When Willy and Linda purchased their home in Brooklyn ... and forgiveness. Instead, the failure of the seeds is just another sign pointing to the ultimate demise of Willy and his dreams. The apartment buildings, the rubber hose, Willy's brother Ben, the...

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... family, especially Willy, trying to accomplish the American dream, but with no success. Willy Loman is married to Linda, and his two sons are Biff and Happy. Other characters as Ben, Charley, Bernard, and the women in the hotel play a major role in Willy's downfall through the story. Willy has always wanted to be successful and well-liked among people, but ... not. Another influence in Willy's downfall through the play is the presence of his brother Ben in his dreams. Ben tells Willy that he became rich when he went to Africa and found a mine of diamonds. One might think Ben is not real...

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... Willy receives bad news he always fantasizes about a brother that he never really knew. Willy remembers his brother Ben leaving when Willy was little, but he thinks that Ben came home extremely rich. While playing cards with Charley he has a fantasy of when Ben came to see Willy and told him about how he went to Africa and came out of the jungles ... brother's job offer to work in Alaska. After Willy gets fired from his sales job in Act II, he has a fantasy about when Ben came to him and asked if he was interested in working in a forest that Ben had acquired in Alaska, but Linda convinc...

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... funeral will be massive! They will come from Maine, Massachusetts, Vermont, and New Hampshire! Rode Island, New York, New Jersey- I am known, Ben, and he"ll see it with his eyes once and for all. He"ll see what I am Ben! He's in for a shock, that boy!" (Miller 1515) This was a foreshadow of what Willy's life would come to. Willy questions of ... Willy with greed, and the desire to be better than the next man. The only person from the Loman family to make something of himself was Ben. Willy tells his sons "this is your Uncle Ben, a great man! He walked into the jungle when he was sevente...

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... that. But they do laugh at me. I know that (Miller, 37). Willy Loman had one chance in his life to become successful. If he had decided to follow his brother Ben to Alaska, he may have achieved his dream of becoming rich. His constant flashbacks of this incident depict his regrets of choosing to be a salesman over moving to Alaska. "Why ... didn't I go to Alaska with my brother Ben that time! Ben! That man was a genius, that man was success incarnate! What a mistake! He begged me to go- (41). His decision haunts him. Having grown up around recent immigrants to the ... ...

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... and for no apparent reason he would fade away into a conversation with an individual from his past. Ben: "Is mother living with you?" - Willy: "No, she died a long time ago" - Charley: " who" - Ben: "That's too bad. Fine specimen of a lady, mother." - Willy to Charley: "Heh?" - Ben: "I'd hoped to see the old girl." - Charley: "Who died?" (Miller, 46) In this conversation it is clearly ... ...

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... was. The most realistic part of the play may have been about how much Willy loved his children and how he wanted their life to be better than his own. Ben even seemed to appear when Willy was trying to make a decision on how to make the boys lives better. This situation with ... Ben makes it appear that Willy has such a hard time making a decision about what is best for the boys, that he relies on his imagination for an answer. The main reason ... ...

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... improving his dignity. In Act II, Willy reveals his desires to win back Biff's respect by committing suicide. During one of his illusions, he says " Ben that funeral will be massive that boy will be thunderstruck, Ben, because he never realized I am known!" (Miller, Death of a Salesman). Another characteristic that Miller identifies as one of a tragic hero is a flaw; "an unwillingness to ... ...

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... ," his son contributes to Willy's suicide by not conforming to what he sees as the perfect son (Miller1880). His brother Ben's success in the jungles of Africa upsets Willy and his feeling of worthlessness increases after he chooses not to accompany Ben. More than just Willy's family is to blame for his destiny. Willy's friends, neighbors, and employer all share some responsibility ... ...

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... 't as sharp as he used to be. Willy has a slight inferiority complex, and this is shown through the continuous flashbacks he has of his dead brother Ben who struck it rich in the jungle. Ben causes Willy to feel like more of a failure because he is struggling to make ends meet and provide for his family. Another example of Willy's inferiority is ... ...

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... , he feels that the carburetor should not have gone bad and he does not want to pay for it. Willy is delusional as well. He imagines his dead brother Ben a lot. Ben pops in occasionally and tells Willy how great Alaska is and is always how successful he has been. This again fires Willy's desire to succeed and not fail. As was ... ...

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... mind and holding conversations with himself within the conversations with his family. A "fake- moral that Willy instills is the idea of popularity. He states to Ben, his dead brother, " That's just the way I'm bringing them up, Ben "rugged, well-liked, all around."" (Miller, 1150) Willy shuns his son Biff for not being what Willy wishes him to be. When Biff was ... ...

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... -four years he is no longer needed. He clearly states how you can get jerked in the business world. Just as Miller demonstrates that point through another character, Willy's Brother Ben. Ben is a character who is also a businessman. He came into the business world a poor man and left out rich. The character mentions to Biff Willy's older son in order to succeed ... ...

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... his whole family was together as a family unit. So much hope, comfort and security lay before Willy. This was probably the happiest time in Willy life. Then his older brother Ben left to go to Alaska. This means that Willy never had a father figure in his life and his character was built on the capitalist society that he was living in ... ...

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... a career, having too much pride to admit that his own destiny was in a simple career like a carpenter. Wearing a white collar then a blue one. Instead he looked up to his bother Ben, a figment of his imagination who told him that money was the true path to happiness. Now out of options, he decides that suicide is his only exit, so his family ... ...

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... that he is still living in the past and that he is not happy with the decisions he made when he says, "Why didn't I go to Alaska with my brother Ben that time? That man was a genius incarnate! What a mistake! He begged me to go." He always knew he made a mistake, but realized that, that mistake would stay with him for ... ...

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... . "There is so much I want to make for" (Act 1, Scene 3). His dialogue with the woman indicates his lack of awareness about his present life. Willy also hallucinates about his brother Ben. Willie wishes he could be more like his brother and have the benefits he had. "You see what I have been talking about? the greatest things can happen" (Act 1, Scene 4). Willie ... ...

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... own inability to change with it, will seal his fate. Willy Loman is finding himself less and less capable. He dreams of making it big and has visions of Uncle Ben who gives him advice on how to get rich, but never the kind of advice Willy wants to hear. Willy is concerned about his image. He is a great showman who ... ...

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... understand the tragedy of the play. Willy has his own beliefs and ways of doing things just lie any "common man" "a man can't go out the way he came in, Ben, a man has got to add up to something" ...

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... affection only some months after they were married." (Guiles 34) 3. She divorced Jim in July of 1946, while he was overseas in the war. a. The same year she met with Ben Lyon's, the head of casting for Fox. b. Lyon's was also the one responsible for renaming her Marilyn Monroe. B. Her second marriage is slightly disputed. 1. Most say it was to Joe ... ...

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... . "There is so much I want to make for" (Act 1, Scene 3). His dialogue with the woman indicates his lack of awareness about his present life. Willy also hallucinates about his brother Ben. Willie wishes he could be more like his brother and have the benefits he had. "You see what I have been talking about? the greatest things can happen" (Act 1, Scene 4). Willie ... ...

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... time, but Willy still paid off his twenty-five years mortgage of the house which Linda announced that "It's an accomplishment."(Arthur Miller P.73) From his flashback, it showed that Ben had offered Willy a chance to fight for a fortune up with him. Even though, it was the dream that he dreamed for his life. Willy refused because he didnt want to ... ...

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