Fences and Death of a Salesman
There are likely as many similarities between these two plays as there are dramatic differences. And yet, both are extremely well- written, both allow the audience to peek into the living rooms and lives of interesting people, and both also put a microscope on society and allow the audience to examine the real characters that make America what it is. In this paper, plays will be compared and Fences, which depicts the African-American family experience of the late 1950s, just prior to the social and civil rights explosions of the 1960s, is in a way the balancing act on the other side of the American teeter-totter from Salesman, a story of the middle class American Caucasian experience of the late 1940s. Characters in both fictional families are seen in their realistic settings, and are believable. Death of a Salesman of course is a far more well-known play, indeed an internationally renowned play, having initially run on Broadway for 742 performances, opening in February, 1949, and winning the Pulitzer Prize, plus the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for
And at that moment in the play, Troy's Friday night drinking buddy, Bono, brings up the fact that Troy was a darn good baseball player in his day. Obviously, a person whose job it is to pick up garbage and drive to the next can of rotting, smelly and soggy material, and do it over again, day after day, year in and year out, is not very highly regarded. a star like that, magnificent, can never really fade away!" (However, Biff is no hero by the time he's 34: he's a self-described bum, who had failed math, lost his scholarship to college, and works for minimum wages. And at the end of Act Two, Scene One, after son Cory hits his dad and knocks him down, Troy invokes baseball again: "Alright. , and sees that Troy holds a steady job and stays sober six days a week, those details add up to viewing the play as a metacomedy. Miller unwittingly gave an already bad image a fresh black eye. " Interesting similarities between the plays Although a salesman is certainly on a higher rung of the social ladder than a garbage man, both vocations have image problems. Cobb as Willy); topping that were the 25 million in the TV audience in CBS's 1985 production starring Dustin Hoffman (as Willy), Kate Reid, and John Malkovich. But if one views Maxson's life and times as a hope-inducing improvement over his father's life, and if one views the play as hope for a better future for African- Americans in the U. " Viewing Troy Maxson's life as a life unto itself - he was abandoned at age 8 by his mother, he escaped the clutches of his violent father at 14, served 15 years in prison on a murder charge - one can see tragedy clearly and completely.
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