Friday, May 8, 2009
Death of a Salesman
Death of a salesman was a very interesting book. I enjoyed the fact that Willy had some type of mental disorder. I just wonder why it wasn't dealt with. His family was a typical family with problems. He was having affairs on his wife. It was ashame because he would give his mistress things he wouldn't even give his wife. He ended up getting caught with the mistress by his own son. Willy really wasn't living his life right. He was on the wrong track. He wanted his sons to be so much like him and become successful in the business, but that wasn't what they wanted. This kind of hit them hard because they wanted to please their father but they wanted to do something of their choice. Willy wasn't really happy with himself so he set these goal for his children that they didn't want to live up to. It was kind of sad. So in the story Biff decided to ake his on path in follow his dreams. This was hard for him to even say to his father but it was good that he did. It showed a sense of strength.
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Janine, for this post I would have liked to see the balance in your writing shift away from plot summary toward more detailed analysis of your argument that you hit towards when you write,
ReplyDelete"Willy really wasn't living his life right. He was on the wrong track. He wanted his sons to be so much like him and become successful in the business, but that wasn't what they wanted." How could you have expanded this interpretation in ways that would have built a strong analytic commentary?