Personally, I’ve never thought of the American Dream as the achievement of a particular goal such as owning a house, owning a car, or having a successful life – materialism is indeed an aspect[…]
Tag: death of a salesman
Pointing Fingers
Death of a Salesman is quite an astonishing play, mainly because it hit home in all the places I didn’t want it to. It is honest about its own truths. One question particularly[…]
Advice that would have been useful ten years ago
I tried something totally out of the box for this critical essay and focused on one single event over the course of two paragraphs, contrasting the advice someone was given for success versus the failure[…]
Biff Loman – The Final Sale
‘Cause what could be more satisfying than to be able to go, at the age of eighty-four, into twenty or thirty different cities, and pick up a phone, and be remembered and loved and helped[…]
Of Ranchers and Salesmen
PROMPT: Discuss the ideas developed by the text in your chosen text about the ways in which individuals take responsibility for themselves or others. Despite having grown accustomed to having their dreams and personal[…]
Dream-Like Responsibility – Polished Critical
[…] the ways in which individuals take responsibility for themselves or others (June 2010) Responsibility is inarguably the quintessential factor behind the creation of one’s ideals because it is through one’s illusions that they[…]
William Loman: A Small Analysis
After a first-time read through Arthur Miller’s play, Death of a Salesman, it is easy to simply see the book as the story of an old geezer trying to live vicariously through one of his[…]
The American Nightmare
Note: I’d like to preface the essay just to show some gratitude for Megan, Siddharth, and Claire for teaching us and for inspiring much of what I have written about in the essay.On the Friday before[…]
The Death of Low Man – Polished Critical
Discuss the idea(s) developed by the text creator in your chosen text about the ways in which individuals take responsibility for themselves or others. Being a parent can be strenuous and demanding; otherwise rewarding when[…]