The Attempts Made
Death of a Salesman, by Arthur Miller, is a play depicting one man, WillyLoman, in his attempt to achieve the American Dream while living amongst hiswife and children. Throughout the play the reader is introduced to manycharacters, some who are dynamic and some who are static. In any good literalwork there is a balance of both of these types of characters, and Death of aSalesman is no exception that Willy Loman, his wife Linda, and their twochildren, Biff and Happy, create these characteristics. Willy Loman is focused on his primary goal to achieve the AmericanDream through hard work. At the beginning of the play Willy had declined totravel with his brother, he insisted that he would achieve his dream. Four yearslater his brother stumbles upon a diamond mine and is instantly rich. Willy runs into some tough times, and is constantly asking his friend Charlie for money. Charlie has offered Willy jobs on several occasions, and Willy constantly refuses.: CHARLEY. I offered you a job. You can make fifty dollars a week. And I won't send you on the road. CHARLEY. Without pay? What kind of a job is a job
(1683) Willy is still determined to achieve his dream in his own way, as a salesman. Even when he is blaming himself, she tries to redirect theblame. Itseemed as if her primary purpose in the play was to support Willy. Arthur Miller does a wonderful jobof keeping a balance between static and dynamic characters within Death Of ASalesman. Happy and Biff are the dynamic characters; Happy becomes the moresuccessful and more well-liked, while Biff becomes the spitting image of hisfather, eventually realizing his father's faults. (1638)She doesn't want him to blame himself for anything, she continuously strives toput him on a pedestal. Biff Loman is a dynamic character, because unlike Willy he eventuallyrealizes the unfairness of society. Even in death he endeavored to achieve hisdream by dying the death of a salesman. By the end of the playBiff had gained this understanding, and in this aspect had changed.
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