Death of a Salesman depicts a family conflict. Write an essay in which you describe the sources of the conflict and how the conflict adds to the meaning of the work. The Loman family’s downfall can only be blamed on the self perpetuating myth of the American Dream, which slowly brings on their own implosion. Willy lives his life believing himself to to be living his life to this ideal, and he hands this myth down to his sons, who go on to struggle with it for their entire lives. The misconception that is Willy Loman’s life makes it so that the Loman family exist in a state of constant friction, the culmination of which constantly resides with Willy and his eldest son Biff.
Walter's anger is perfectly justified although it gets him nowhere, and Ruth's increasing frustration with her husband is also justified, especially as they are about to bring another child into the world. The reader hopes that Walter's scheme will work even though he/she knows it never will. In the end, the family triumphs against daunting odds. They will have to work harder than they ever have to keep their house, and they will never fit into their neighborhood. They will likely face acts of discrimination even more pronounced, but they do not swallow their pride and submit to the demands of Lindner and their neighborhood.
The Man Walter Lee A Raisin in the Sun is written by Lorraine Hansberry and Walter Lee Younger is one of the main characters for the duration of the play. He goes through many trials and tribulations during the play. He goes from just being known as a boy to becoming a man throughout, and really plays a major role in how the family ends up moving and how the family goes through a lot of hardship over the course of the play. Walter Lee is the son of Lena, and the husband of Ruth. Beneatha is his sister and Travis is his son.
As a result, the inability to balance time between his job and family led to the failure of his first marriage. Another source of conflict was his inability to trust his staff members, supervisors and foremen . There were heads of departments that should have provided him with reports and feedback about the work progress since he is the vice president, but he preferred to do everything by himself. He was strolling around the organization. During his strolls, he was listening and looking and keeping in
She aspires to be as courageous as her uncle. He is very outspoken and kind of crazy but Clara looks past that and sees a man who is creative and intelligent. Walter Mitty lives a pretty depressing life. Every day he gets nagged by his wife and has to hold his tongue because he is afraid of how she will respond if he did otherwise. His daydreams are a break from his bland life.
He says “when my father was turning on my mother, he was also turning on me because I would stick up for my mother while the rest of my brother and sisters would be hiding in the cupboards.” the point I am trying to make here is that after such a harsh and miserable childhood he has still made an amazing and successful career and life. Next I would like to tell you about Benjamin Zephaniahs performance styles because he somehow adds everyone and anyone into his wonderful work. For example in his poem “we refugee’s” he says everything as the first person which shows he cares about the slavery and feels like one of them and also in his poem “touch” he uses sing language which tells us that he wants to add the people who have a hard time trying to read or listen. What I am trying to tell you here is that he adds everyone in to his work which some poets may not do unknowingly which makes him an outstanding person and poet. I would like to tell you about his lifestyle now because in the
She was very critical of people around her, and found it very difficult to connect with anyone. This was because she found it so difficult to show how she felt. Her inability to show she emotions lead people around her to believe she didn’t care. For example: When her son John passed away, Hagar didn’t cry. This made everyone in town think that she simply didn’t feel any remorse for her son’s death.
He is frustrated and mad that he can’t provide her with the best. It is a constant struggle for him as man not to be able to have all the things he wants. His mom knows that what Walter plans on doing to accomplish his goal of providing the best, is not the best choice. “Mama: Baby, how you going feel on the inside? Walter: Fine!...Going to feel fine…a man… Mama: You won’t have nothing left then, Walter Lee” (Act 3, Scene 3 pg 438) .
The title Raisin in the Sun symbolizes an African-American family, the Youngers, moving into a white community the Clybourne Park, where they were not welcome. The play talks of the racial discrimination thoroughly as the Youngers were about to embark into a different society where people were only able to see the color of the Youngers, especially when Mr. Lindner went as far as attempting to bribe the Youngers not to move in. This action threatens to break apart the Younger family for the fact that the house in Clybourne Park represents every family members in the Younger family's dream of uniting their family. I think that this play is the complete opposite of Awake and Sing! in terms of the characters, the ending, and tone of the plays, as the Youngers are more united and more hardworking than Bessie's family which mostly consisted of idealists that do not know how to take action to reach their dream.
He seems obsessed with prestige—although he himself is not willing to work for it. His dialogue throughout the work seems to be one long lamentation for the prestige that he does not have. In this first chapter Tambu expresses the injustice that women face; it is evident that she will come to dislike the members of her family (male and female) because they reinforce and perpetuate this inequity. Chapter 2: Tambu’s uncle Babamukuru is described in more detail. Babamukuru is the patriarch of Tambu’s family; he uses his success to support his entire family.