... man is really Hazlett. " You hear me pal? We've gotta keep on living. You understand that, don't you?" (S&L 303) "Death of a Traveling Salesman is a story of contrasts" (Daniel 278) R.J. Bowman is a self-absorbed salesman who has a similar character flaw to that of Hazlett. He thinks of other people as sales, victims ready to be preyed upon by buying his shoes. This is illustrated when Bowman first ... Bowman and Hazlett have seemingly similar lives in two different eras. "Death of a Traveling Salesman" is set in the past probably the thirties while "Canoe" is set in more modern times. ...

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