“The Death of Salesman”
1. CHARACTERS
a. Major characters
· Willy Loman ; a traveling salesman who believes in the promises of American Dream. He is 61 years old. He is a poor and little salesman.
· Linda Loman; Willy’s wife. She loves her husband very much.
· Biff Loman; the oldest son of Willy Loman. He was a star football player in high school. But now he has not a certain job, he has been moving from one job to another. Willy’s hopes akre centered on Biff.
· Happy Loman ; the younger s on of Willy. He works in a department store.
b. Minor Characters
· Charley ; Loman’s friend. He is sincere and hard worker.
· Bernard ; Charley’s son who was a childhood friend of Biff. He is successful lawyer now.
· Ben ; Willy’s dead brother. He appears only in Willy’s dreams or illusions.
· Howard Wagner ; the son of the former owner in the Wagner Company.
· Miss Frances ; the woman in Boston who Willy has an affair.
· Letta and miss. Farsythe; the two women that Happy picks up in the restaurant.
2. CHARACTERIZATION
a. Willy ; he is arrogant per son, a person who has high self-confidence, talk active. And he is a dreamer but he has rigid spirit and hard worker.
b. Linda ; a kind housewife because she want to accept the situation in her family. She is rigid person.
c. Biff ; a nice son for his family, but he doesn’t evaluate himself very high, he is a hard worker too.
d. Happy ; Happy like Linda, really normally. He has a normal middle class life with regular world. He is very royal with his parents.
3. SCENERY [The Setting place and time]
Place ; most of the play is set in the Loman’s house in New York.
Time ; the times fluctuate between the year in 1928 and 1942.
4. PLOT
a. Exposition
There is a family which has a head of household named Willy Loman. Willy has the problem is being able to separate illusion from reality. Willy has been a travelling salesman for the Wagner Company for 34 years. He likes to think of himself as being vital to New England territory and he believes in the false promises of the American Dream.
b. Complication
Most of Willy’s time live in a dream world in which Willy believes that he will be successful person, belongs to his son. Willy teaches his son that he will get success if he has a good looking and not to work hard. And Willy believes that Biff can do it.
c. Climax
It occurs when Biff forces the truth about himself and Willy, his father. In other words, Biff makes his father see that both he and Willy are failures. Biff makes his father realize the emptiness of their lives and Willy can’t accept this reality.
d. Resolution
It is a tragic ending in which Willy commits suicide in order to get financially provide for his family, especially for Biff’s future with the receipt of Willy’s twenty thousand dollar insurance policy.
5. POINT OF VIEW
In this play, The Death of Salesman presents this story using third person narrator. The author points all character and positioning them as third person.
6. STYLE
a. Based on the narration and dialogues of this play, it is using standard grammatical structure. The dialogue and narration is using present tense and past tense..
b. The sentence construction of the narration and the dialogue is using long sentence construction. It uses subject, verb, object and modifier too. There is also find some clause, phrase etc.
c. In this story, there is figurative language. It is irony in the death of salesman. There are several examples of irony in Death of a Salesman.
For example, when Willy goes in intending to get a better job, he actually ends up losing his job. Happy’s name is ironic.
It is also ironic how Bernard ends up being much more successful than Willy or his sons, when Willy had been so certain all it took to be successful was to be liked.
Another example of irony is that Willy will buy stockings for his women in other cities, but can’t afford them for even his own wife.
And the others ironic that by the time the house was paid for there was no one to live in.
7. Theme
The great theme of this story is The falsity of the American Dream.
In this theme has meaning that Willy Loman represent the primary target of this dream. So it led Loman to high dreamer in which he hopes to be successful person. Even it is false dreams.
CONCLUSION
After reading and understanding this play or the story, I will conclude that it is belongs to Mans vs society because this story appears the activity that relate with the other person or society. And in this story also describe the condition of the family that often we get in the common society
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