He even shoved his father off in the funeral of his mother and worked arduously to fend for his family. While other children at his age are enjoying their lives, he had to sell newspaper five hours a day, and at night he dances a jig in saloons for pennies (Anderson 674). Despite having a gruesome childhood, Tom grew up into a successful and wellrespected man. His determination and will of iron helps Tom [him] go through his horrendous past, accomplish more than anyone would expect, and lead the life he had always craved. His wife, Margaret, also compliments him: “He’s a remarkable man,” and “Everything he’s done, he’s done for his family” (Anderson 644).
I will explain my views by referring to a range of evidence. This will include some of his performances and poems such as “white comedy“, “touch” and responsible and interviews written about him. I will particularly consider his childhood, performance style, lifestyle, achievements and use of word lyrics. Firstly I would like to tell you about Benjamin Zephaniahs childhood because in the interview by the Observer it tells us that he had an extraordinary childhood due to him being the eldest of eight children and how he runaway with his mother because his father was a bad man and how he went to prison and got expelled from school due to stealing and theft. 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.
After great determination and hard work, he is able to pull off a major comeback in his career. The movie revolves around the economic instability in the family of James J. Braddock. In a scene where Braddock tries to find a job in the dockyard, a newspaper reads “Unemployed Hits Record 15,000,000”, which tries to portray the situation during the Great Depression before World War II. Here, many men are shown working hard day and night to support their family through crisis. As the American Dream states, “Life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone, with opportunity for each according to ability or achievement regardless of social class or circumstances of birth.” in the movie, Braddock, although working very hard, gets fired and doesn’t even get a job to support his family.
He also pictures the poor living conditions of his family and their unpaid bills which suggest that there isn’t enough food to eat. (EXPLANATION) This is an effective use of flashback because it shows Jim’s motivations for winning. It gave him the strength and adrenaline he needed to continue to fight because he realized at that moment that winning would be the only way to end his family’s poverty and keep them together (POINT) Another way in which the film us made more dramatic is through the use of irony, using a scene in which Jim’s wife May goes to visit his manager Joe. May is mad because she believes that Joe is wealthy and is using Jim to make more money, at the risk of their family. (PROOF) When she shows up at Joe’s luxury apartment, she thinks he won’t answer his door because he doesn’t want to argue with her.
Willy has a dream that he refuses to give up even when it becomes clear that his dream is shallow, unrealistic and unattainable. The American Dream, a belief that any man can achieve material greatness and subsequent happiness if he works hard enough, if he fights for it, had a personal connotation for Miller, whose uncle was a travelling salesman, and whose father was a wealthy manufacturer before losing his wealth in the Great Depression. His family’s ongoing struggle with poverty certainly influenced this particular work, and others. Willy genuinely believes that that personal attractiveness (constant references to the importance of being “Well liked”) and hard work is enough to guarantee success. His view of success was inspired by Dave Singleman, who at the age of 84 could sell anything to anyone from his hotel room and whose funeral was attended by hundreds of people.
Discuss the importance of the character BEN, in ‘death of a salesman.’ Death of a salesman is a play that talks about the American dream. Willy Loman is the main character, and he is chasing his dream throughout the play. Willy strives to be a successful salesman and have countless money, just like his older brother Ben whom he looks up to, even after he passed away he would visualize him. Ben has a specific line that he repeats throughout the play ‘’when I was twenty-one I walked out. And by god I was rich.’ Whenever Ben says that Willy gets motivated to work harder and he interprets Ben's good fortune as undeniable proof that his dreams of making it big are realistic.
He seems like a very hard working man and is determined to live the American dream. However he works night and day just to pay the bills. No matter he is very determined and ambitious for success. Uncle Willy has strong feelings of love and pride toward Biff while he barely gives Happy any attention. He seems very insecure and acts like he lives in a world of his own.
The main character, Walter Lee, manifests this, as he sacrifices almost all he has for his dream of becoming a successful businessman. This obsession destroys all that is important in his life: his marriage, his relationship with his sister and mother, and his pride. He is helplessly at the mercy of his unattainable dream; although at heart, he is a loving father, husband, son, and brother, his infatuation with money and his American Dream gets the best of him and nearly destroys his marriage and his relationship with his mother and sister. Walter Lee’s dream for monetary success takes over almost all aspects of
Willy’s beliefs and actions stem from his fear of being alone. His desires to be well-liked lead him to raise his sons to be ideal figures and loyal companions – something he never had in his early days. When speaking to Howard Wagner about his career origins, he replies that, “Selling was the greatest career a man could want. Cause what could be more satisfying then to be able to go, at the age of eighty-four, into twenty or thirty different cities, and pick up a phone, and be remembered and loved and helped by so many different people?” He speaks of Dave Singleman, a salesman who dies on the job, supposedly to the great melancholia of his peers. In Willy’s eyes, he is already immortalized, a martyr who serves as the spokesman for a noble cause.
However, for Willy to live by his ideals necessitates building or telling many lies, and these illusions replace reality in Willy's mind. He tells lies about how well liked he is in all of his towns, and how vital he is to New England. At times Willy even believes his own lies and becomes enthusiastic when he tells his family that he made more money than he actually did. Willy then fills his sons so full of this concept of being well-liked that when Biff flunks math he goes to Boston to search for his father. He thought that since Willy is so