Death is such a contradicting situation. It is always a sad event, but in some
perspectives it may or may not be a joyous event. Not to say that death should
be celebrated, just to point out that life may have been a more dramatic
experience. For my first novel in G.T. I read Death of a Salesman, a play
written by Arthur Miller. Arthur Miller was born in 1915, in New York City. His
parents were well To do until the depression. He attended college where he won
three drama prizes. Death of a Salesman was his their Broadway play. The play
Death of A Salesman was an extremely confusing play, it was a dialogue between a
family of people. There were numerous flashbacks used to illustrate things that
happened in the past. The overall purposeof the flashbacks was to describe the
situation that Willy Loman, the main character, was dillusional. I feel that in
this the characters of this book are well described. The author describes Willy
was an average man with a somewhat normal life. His wife Linda is loving and
like any woman she sticks by her man. Happy and Biff are Willy and Linda’s
sons. The play takes place when Biff and Happy come to visit their parentsfor a
couple of days. The play is reality that most books and movies do not display.
It shows an average american family struggling to get by. In the play it is
apparent that the characters have strong dreams and aspirations. It is also
obvious that they have not yet succeeded in accomplishing them. Quite a few
events happen that prove, no matter how hard someone tries, in society things
change and it is hard to reach full potential. The authors of the play puts more
reality into the central theme of the play. People get old and begin to do odd
things such as talk to people that are not there or people that only exists in
their minds. Throughout the play Willy would have conversations with people that
he believed were there, but they really were not. Willy strived to be the best
and if he was not successful, then things were not good enough. He was ashamed
that his money supply was not sufficentenough to support his family. The theme
changed throughout the course of the book. I believe the point that he was
trying to emphasize was to never give up and all the barriers in the way will be
broken. This play has taught me the lesson that life is how one individual
person decides to make it out to be. The plays point of view was from two or
more characters having a conversation. The play suggested that in life that
certain things have to be completed in life before death is bestowed upon
someone. In this the example was that Willy had to resolve his long term bad
relationship with his son, Biff. The play will help me in my life because like I
have stated that the story or the plot may be fictional, but it could happen in
someone’s life. In other words it is reality. The word usage for the dialect
were elementary and some untasteful words were expressed. For example the word
fool is used several times. Other untasteful words are used, but they are to
untasteful to mention. The stage directions had a larger more descriptive
vocabulary. For example, when describing the house it says ”We are aware of
towering, angular shapes behind surrounding it on all sides.” The movie that
this play reminds me of would have to be a small made for television only movie
called “The Red Door.” It is a movie about a family of six, a mother, a
father son, and three daughters. The mother, Mary works at a shopping center and
the whole theme of the movie is trying to get past the red door at the local
restraunt. In the play and the movie all of the characters are the average
family and they thrive to succeed in life. The characters in the movie all
correspond with the characters of the play. They were both set in the past when
it was a mans job to do the work and the woman to stay home. Although, in the
movie the mother does work because the father is unable to find work due to the
fact of some crimes he committed as a child. Both the play and the movie deal
very much with the past. In the play Willy’s son Biff has a resentment towards
his father because he commited adultery. Biff was the one who caught him in the
act and it devastated him. In the movie the father had childhood problems which
he took out in his son. In the movie it does have one single set, but it changes
like years. When the father and son grow up there is a strong animosity between
them that might make there relationship be lost forever. This was an interesting
play that had many high points. I enjoyed it and my favorite part about it was
the reality that it displayed. Families really do have problems and this play
illustrated this.