Themes in "Death of a Salesman"

          In Death of a Salesman, there are three very prominent themes throughout act I. One of these themes, is that Willy has failed to accomplish the American Dream. Willy has worked in the same company for many years, but even after so many years of work, Willy doesn't get respected by anyone at work. His boss does not respect the fact that Willy has worked for the company since before he was born. Willy has been unable to make a name for himself, or pass any life skills on to his sons, which are two key parts of the American Dream.
          A second theme in Death of a Salesman, is that Willy is the only unsuccessful man around. Willy's brother is supposedly rich. He made it big in Alaska, and Willy wishes that he had too. His best friend and neighbor, Charley is a successful business owner, and his son Bernard is a very high up lawyer, while Willy is failing at work, and one of his sons is an unemployed compulsive lier, and the other is a womanizer.
          A third theme in death of a salesman, is that of Man vs. Self. Willy hates himself. he tries to kill himself on several occasions. He drives his car off a bridge, but doesn't die. He tries to suck  in toxic gases, but doesn't die. He mutters to himself constantly, about how his brother is more successful, and his sons are losers. He has constant flashbacks to a time when his sons were successful, and he was well respected.

Death of a Salesman

           In Death of a Salesman, by  Arthur Miller, The main characcter, Will Loman, has two adult sons. Their names are Happy, and Biff. As a father, Willytries to teach his sons certain values. He does not care very much about his sons individuality, and just wants them to follow in his path, and be traveling salesman. He tries to teach them how to accomplish their dreams, but in reality, he is just projecting his own ambitions on to them. These are not favorable for his sons. They will not know how to live on their own, since their father has only taught them to do what he has done his whole life, and not be individuals.
           Willy Loman is also very paranoid, and unsure of himself. He always feels as though no one likes him, but he isn't sure if that is really true. He tends to mutter things, and can never make uop his mind about his past, or his sons. This reveals that Willy is a very unsure, paranoid person. Unfortunately, his wife Linda supports everything that he does. She won't let him believe that his paranoid and untrusting ways are actually harmful to him. Linda is supporting, but her support is negative, because she won't allow Willy to see his flaw, therefoire he can not improve on his habits.

rules?

        I think that everyone should agree that cheating is wrong. you should not copy off someone elses work, you should just study , or do the work yourself to begin with. However, lots of people cheat. we have all copied someone elses homework before, whether or not we care to admit it toi people. I think that cheating is a rule that is kind of hard to prevent. a teacher doesn't have anyway of prevfenting two students from getting together outside of class, and looking at eachother's homeowrk. And even if they do think t has happened, they usually don't have a way to prove it, unless the person was really not the brightest, and copied word for word. now that i think of it though, I don't think that I have copied off someone's homework yet this school year. That probably is a good thing though.
       There are alot of rules that are hard to enforce, just like cheating. Like texting during classes. I see people text during class every single day.I used to on ocasion do it myself, before my phone broke, and i couldn't use it to text. I'm not sure if the teachers are oblivious to it, or if they simply just don't care at this point. I nnotice people texting, why don't the teachers? I am in ADC right now, with no one for me to tutor, and so i decided to do this blog. there a still a bunch of people who don't have anyone to tutor, like me, and a bunch of them ar eprobably texting, because what else would they be doing? It's not enforced, so why follow it really?