Willy Loman used to be just like any other man. Great worker, supported his family to the fullest, and loved them with all his heart. That was when he was happy. Then somthing horrible happened. Willy started working away from home ALL the time. He didnt see his family much but when he did come home they were always there with big smiles and careing hugs. It was when his two boys, Happy and Biff, grew older that he became this crazy person. Willy begins to seem very distant and not fully there. He starts talking to himself replaying events that once happened years before. People just think hes getting old when in realilty he's just not really over what his son saw.
Willy became lonley on his trips away from home. This is when he found another women to fill that lonleiness. You dont find out till the end of the story that this is the real reason why he becomes so depressed and seems far away. One night he invited his friend over to his room just like any other night when he was away. This night was different because Biff decieded to go see his father. Biff was upset because he had jsut found out that he was unable to graduate from highschool. He thought his father could maybe change somthing about that so he drove all the up to see him. Little did he knOw he would find his father with another women. Willy tried to play it off at first but Biff was not a stupid boy.After seeing this I feel Biff became scarred. He then started making the wrong choices by not going back to school and was always unaware of what he really wanted. He knew he wouldnt be able to tell his mother and just never really knew how to deal with the situation. In the end Willy knows he was a very wrong man but that secreat stayed between a son and his father throughtout the whole book and I think that thats a story within its self.
I would like you guys to comment on the way I written this little summary. I didn't use every detail in the story but I tried being as descriptive as possible and I would like you to comment if I did that successfully or not.
ok marce, first off, there's no "d" in tragic lol. But anyway, I think your analysis was pretty good, you seemed to have reverted to plot summary a little bit without directly stating the plot. I'd love to see you give more insights on the things you are saying in the next post.
ReplyDeleteI agree with joey with the plot summary, it wasn't really a summary but just a detailed overview. I like the approach that you took and some of the points you made that I didn't think of in my post but that I agree with.
ReplyDeleteI'm okay with the summary, but I would have been more interested to read more about what you mean when you call Miller's play "a love story." Miller himself calls it a love story in an interview that we viewed part of in class. If you think this is true, I would want to know who you think this is a story of love between.
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