I told him when he first come to me with it”(Wilson 1355). Here Troy rambles on as he explains the tensions between both groups of races and he and his son. Expressing his own cynicism with his experience with professional baseball, Troy hopes to protect his son from this same fate(Shafer, Drama Criticism vol. 31) Troy only has noble intentions to see his son succeed in life, but does not realize
He works long hours at a job he’s not good at and doesn’t truly enjoy, and he expects this kind of life for his sons. As Biff continues to not live up to his expectations, they clash constantly Biff’s failure to live his father’s dream life causes Willy to express constant disappointment in the man he’s become. Willy raised him to grow up sailing through life, believing that he can get by on being well-liked and admired. When this never culminates in the life Biff wanted, he has no idea of the direction he needs to go in. He can never hold down a job and develops a kleptomania habit.
When Willy has a flashback of when Ben visited him and they discuss about their father, Willy says to Ben that “I still feel kind of temporary about myself?”(Death of a Salesman, 51). From the quote, Willy gives the reader the clue that he wanted his father to play as an important figure in his life but was not present in his life Since his father left him it has caused a negative psychological impact on Willy. This includes Willy always trying to be a friend to his sons oppose to playing the role of a fatherly. This can be clearly proven when Biff steals the football. During this scene, Willy says to Biff that ““I want you to return that.
Willy cheats on Linda out of loneliness and he wants to feel like an important salesman because he cannot face the fact that he’s not. Willy’s pride (Biff), left him, and this shatters Willy, the guilt is overwhelming, unbearable. “Will you stop
When Gatsby returned home, he did whatever he could to win Daisy's heart back and earned money and riches. Nick, Gatsby's neighbor, did the favor of reuniting him with Daisy but after all the time they spent together at his mansion, he still wanted more from her. He expected her to tell Tom that she has never loved him, and leave him, but she couldn't. She loved Tom and she'd be lying if she said she didn't. Daisy couldn't give the love that Gatsby expected from her.
This in turn causes more friction between the two instead of creating the connection that Cory hopes for. Cory begins to lose respect for his father when he finds out that Troy went to the coach and told him that Cory could no longer play football. Cory believes that the reason his father keeps saying no to football is because Troy is jealous of Cory when he tells Troy, “Just cause you didn’t have a chance! You just scared I’m gonna be better than you, that’s all” (442). With each argument Cory has with Troy, he
He blames Charlie as the one who caused him to lose his boxing career and he also blames himself for his lack of bravery to act according to his own will. Despite all these, with the support and guidance of Father Barry and Edie, and finally the death of Charlie, Terry is awakened and is confident enough to fight like a contender in accordance to his conscience. His actions no longer depend on others and he finally wins the respect of the other longshoremen. Kazan clearly shows that Terry has his brother Charlie to blame for making him a bum. In the cabin, while Charlie is meant to bribe Terry with a job so that he would keep quiet about the deeds of the union, Terry expressed his disappointment in Charlie.
资料 In both stories, a young boy who either narrates the story or offers his point of view through indirect discourse witnesses and becomes complicit in an extramarital relationship. In Diaz's story, Yunior, the narrator, sees his father cheating on his mother and senses that this familial transgression is potentially threatening to his family's happiness; he does not fully appreciate his father's motivations, and comprehends only partially how this adulterous affair might connect to his father's changing identity. In Vapnyar's story, Misha sees his grandfather, who seemed utterly unable to adjust to American life, develop a new self-identity when he embarks on a friendship with a Russian immigrant he meets in an English-language class. Both
Cory has been presented with an opportunity and Troy is too stubborn to accept, or even listen to the benefits that Cory will reap. Troy believes that Cory will be better off working at the A&P, even though Cory will benefit from going to college and playing professional football. The animosity between them strengthens through the play, and they start to get into real, physical fights over their disagreements. An internal conflict that Cory faces at the end of the play is the choice to go to his father’s funeral or not. Cory still feels anger towards his father even after his death, and is eventually persuaded to attend his father’s funeral by his mother.
In both plays Death of a Salesman and True West can be both in contrast to the conditions of their visions of the American dream. Both of these plays focus on characters that spend their lives pursuing this dream while they fail at happiness as a result. In Death of a Salesman Willy Loman is a unfortunate, man who is so obsessed with trying to live up to an ideal that he has become disillusioned and has developed a loose sense of reality. Willy, spends his lifetime attempting to become a salesman, only to find in the end that he had failed. True West also focuses on the dysfunction of the American Dream.