Joe Keller is a man who loves his family above all else, and has sacrificed everything, including his integrity, in his struggle to make the family successful. In the first scene of the play, Miller presents Joe Keller to the audience as a “good guy”. At first he appears a likeable man who has made his own fortune. He is practical, a reasonable father and a considerate husband. He lacks education but is perceptive, additionally a good business man.
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.
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.
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.
Throughout “Long Day’s Journey into Night” by Eugene O’Neill, the issue of the past is one that is brought up quite often, by the entire Tyrone family. Mary; the mother; resents that she has never been able to feel at home, while also battling her addiction to morphine because her husband was too stingy to pay for a real doctor. As well as the men of the family’s addiction to alcohol. The children hate their father for his cheap ways and for the way they were brought up. And lastly, Tyrone resents taking on a family, because it kept him from making his “big break” as an actor.
She finds a deep down strength and courage in herself that leads her to want to find out what type of person she really is, and what she wants out of her life. Nora Helmer is a delicate character that had been pampered all of her life, by her father and by her husband. In every sense she is typical housewife. She is financially dependent on her father earlier and on her husband later. She never leaves her house, mostly because her husband is afraid of the way people talk.
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
They need to take care of his mental state now and not wait until it is too late. Aunt Linda seems very patient and is very loyal to Uncle Willy. She keeps track of everything such as with their accounts. She seems like the complete opposite of Uncle Willy, while his head is in the clouds, her sense of reality is rock solid. Aunt Linda loves Uncle Willy like a
At the end of the play, it is ultimately Torvald’s pride in his job, Nora, and his own image that eventually cause his wife to leave him. During the time of the play, men were expected to be the primary breadwinners of the family, so it is no shock that Torvald took it upon himself to be his family’s primary source of income. Although he was only trying to fulfill his duties as a man during that time period, we learn in act 1 that Torvald’s work ethic caused him to become very ill; which then causes Nora to have to borrow a large sum of money to save his life. However, it is also this same work ethic that allows him to eventually become the manager of the bank, unlike his one time friend Krogstad, whose former work ethic has earned him a bad reputation in society. Therefore, when Krogstad starts to call Torvald by his Christian name and become too
The movie is indeed a true story about a stockbroker by the name of Chris Gardner whom was played by Will Smith. The plot of the movie derives around the troubles that this person encounters during the best phases of life in order to achieve the position that he required. The film also focuses a man, a husband and a father and the responsibilities that he has to fulfill and the problems that he faced in order to satisfy all of his relationships. He suffered the fact that his wife leaves him because of their solid economical conditions of the family; he remains very loyal to his son, Christopher and tries to fulfill all of his needs in every way possible. The movie overall had a tremendous impact on my way of thinking.