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Death of a Salesman: Certain Private Conversations in Two Acts and a Requiem (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)

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The theme of "Death of a Salesman" is interesting because it deals with the problems and the fate of individuals who become victims of "the American Dream". Arthur Miller takes the reader into the live and the situation of an apperently normal american family. Through this portrayal the author tries to give the Amrican Dream a verbal punch. There is little doubt that one of the main intetions is to criticize the American society and the American dream, and Arthur Miller does it well.

But, as always in fictional books with a criticism of reality, the author's challenge is to make it credible to the reader. As a young,non- Amrican and not very experienced reader, I have problems with the credibelity of the main character Will, the Salesman who dies. It seems to me that it's not only the effect of the American Dream that bothers him, it looks to me as if he is mentally disturb as well. His act throughout the story appear too extrem to be true. Yes, he got problems, but it is far from big problems to suicide and in my opinion, this development goes to fast. I never felt that I knew the main character well enough to see how the faliure of "the American Dream" changed him. Suddenly he had a lot of problems and acted strange and irrational,which I find incredible, in negative way. I think the author should have used more space on describing the main character and get the reader closer to him. The story begins 20 pages to early.

I have problems with the credibility of the critcism Arthur Miller tries to express, because to me the main character is just a figure in a book, not someone I could imagen in real life. The distance between fiction and reality is too big. For me.

Death of a salesman is a book about the american dream. The american dream is all about beeing succesful and make a better life for yourself. Everybody wants to be famous, swin around in money and live a "easy" -if you could call it easy, life. This is also Willy Lomans dream, but I guess that is not going to happen... In my opinion Willy does not realy try to make it better, he tries to flee by killing himself and he can't even manage to kill himself, what more is there to say! Willy is a falure. As for the book I gave it 3 stars, if I could, I would give it 2,5 because I feel "blank". The book isn't good or bad, it's somewhere in between.. OK, I guess.

The theme of "Death of a Salesman" is interesting because it deals with the problems and the fate of individuals who become victims of "the American Dream". Arthur Miller takes the reader into the live and the situation of an apperently normal american family. Through this portrayal the author tries to give the Amrican Dream a verbal punch. There is little doubt that one of the main intetions is to criticize the American society and the American dream, and Arthur Miller does it well.

But, as always in fictional books with a criticism of reality, the author's challenge is to make it credible to the reader. As a young,non- Amrican and not very experienced reader, I have problems with the credibelity of the main character Will, the Salesman who dies. It seems to me that it's not only the effect of the American Dream that bothers him, it looks to me as if he is mentally disturb as well. His act throughout the story appear too extrem to be true. Yes, he got problems, but it is far from big problems to suicide and in my opinion, this development goes to fast. I never felt that I knew the main character well enough to see how the faliure of "the American Dream" changed him. Suddenly he had a lot of problems and acted strange and irrational,which I find incredible, in negative way. I think the author should have used more space on describing the main character and get the reader closer to him. The story begins 20 pages to early.

I have problems with the credibility of the critcism Arthur Miller tries to express, because to me the main character is just a figure in a book, not someone I could imagen in real life. The distance between fiction and reality is too big. For me.

The theme of "Death of a Salesman" is interesting because it deals with the problems and the fate of individuals who become victims of "the American Dream". Arthur Miller takes the reader into the live and the situation of an apperently normal american family. Through this portrayal the author tries to give the Amrican Dream a verbal punch. There is little doubt that one of the main intetions is to criticize the American society and the American dream, and Arthur Miller does it well.

But, as always in fictional books with a criticism of reality, the author's challenge is to make it credible to the reader. As a young,non- Amrican and not very experienced reader, I have problems with the credibelity of the main character Will, the Salesman who dies. It seems to me that it's not only the effect of the American Dream that bothers him, it looks to me as if he is mentally disturb as well. His act throughout the story appear too extrem to be true. Yes, he got problems, but it is far from big problems to suicide and in my opinion, this development goes to fast. I never felt that I knew the main character well enough to see how the faliure of "the American Dream" changed him. Suddenly he had a lot of problems and acted strange and irrational,which I find incredible, in negative way. I think the author should have used more space on describing the main character and get the reader closer to him. The story begins 20 pages to early.

I have problems with the credibility of the critcism Arthur Miller tries to express, because to me the main character is just a figure in a book, not someone I could imagen in real life. The distance between fiction and reality is too big. For me.

Death of a salesman is a book about the american dream. The american dream is all about beeing succesful and make a better life for yourself. Everybody wants to be famous, swin around in money and live a "easy" -if you could call it easy, life. This is also Willy Lomans dream, but I guess that is not going to happen... In my opinion Willy does not realy try to make it better, he tries to flee by killing himself and he can't even manage to kill himself, what more is there to say! Willy is a falure. As for the book I gave it 3 stars, if I could, I would give it 2,5 because I feel "blank". The book isn't good or bad, it's somewhere in between.. OK, I guess.

No other book captures the corruption of the American Dream like this one, not even The Great Gatsby. The motifs that were used in nearly every part of the book was both appropriate and essential to the eventual suicide of Willy Loman. Although many people may not be satisfied with the ending, it is still a powerful piece of work that deserves to be read by everyone.

this book is great..it demonstated our daily life and the suffocated live chasing for the unreality dreams