The main conflicts in this film are both internal and external. The conflicts that are internal is the fact that every on in the Younger family thinks that money will buy them happiness, and they all constantly disagree with each other about what they should do with the money. Walter wants the money so that he can prove that he is capable of making a future for his family. By doing well in business Walter thinks that he can buy his family happiness. His internal conflict comes into play because he has forgot about his husband responsibilities that he has toward his family by creating this infatuation with opening the liquor store with his friends.
The music, in the background “bright lights, big city” is ironic as Melanie insults her old friends at the small-town pub by asking, “how do you people live like this?”. This is like Gwen’s angry rhetorical questions like “Why do they live like that?”. Melanie’s turning point is when she choses to give up the fairy tale to remarry Jake. She realises the relationships are more important. Like in Away, Melanie escapes to the beach in the storm where she meets her true love, Jake.
Right away, James realizes that Beau is more than just Kelly’s sponsor but he doesn’t say anything. James wants to keep Kelly happy and to get her working again. Although Kelly wants Beau to open up for her during her tour, James opens auditions up at a club. Chiles Stanton is one of the acts James is most anxious to hear but Beau is offended that Chiles is singing at the same place as him. This is because he believes that this once Beauty Queen is not good enough and does not deserve the right to sing her pop country songs where he sings.
Willy Loman obsesses over his goal to become a successful businessman who is wealthy and well liked by everyone. He comes to think that money and success are the answers to all of his problems which is clearly evident when he says, “Be liked and you will never want” (Miller 21). Willy puts all his efforts into being a well-liked man in order to achieve happiness and fulfillment. Through his strides to achieve the “American Dream”, Willy gains nothing but false joy in his actions and lack of success in gaining wealth. Walter Younger also assumes that happiness can be gained through wealth.
Dove intentionally caused an accident in the shop to serve Johnny right for the insufferable way Johnny had been bossing everybody. Johnny held hard feelings for Dove, refusing to forgive him. Not only was Johnny Tremain full of pride, but he also was unforgiving. So how did Johnny turn from prideful and unforgiving to the complete opposite: humble and forgiving? After the accident, because he was no longer able to work as a silversmith, he began searching for a new practice, and new life.
George needs to blame somebody for his mediocre life; the truth of his mediocrity, however, lies in his enjoyment of alcohol and prostitutes, vices that prevent him from ever raising enough money to finance his dream of owning his own farm. George from Of Mice and Men, despite his shortcomings, acts admirably towards his helpless friend. • Lennie is big and dumb. His childlike innocence allows him to take an active role in George's dream of owning a farm. Lennie loves soft things and animals, which he accidentally kills because of his strength.
One night while finishing up dinner he asks permission to go study geometry with a class mate, but Paul has no intent of bettering his geometry skills. Instead, he secretly goes off to the theatre dressing room to assist Charley Edwards who cannot afford a dresser. “It was at the theatre and at Carnegie Hall that Paul really lived; the rest was but a sleep and a forgetting.”(268) After Paul is expelled from school and forced to work by his father, he desperately plots a way to liberate himself and flee to New York. One day Paul is sent to make a deposit for his employers, but instead of
Walter Younger described how much he longed to be a part of the “American Dream”. His tone throughout the book suggested that he was disgusted with his lifestyle but very passionate about doing whatever it took to be well off and accepted by society so that his family wouldn’t have to struggle and be an example to his son of what a man should do for his family. Money probably meant the most to Walter because that’s all he talked about from the time he woke up at the start of the play until the end after he refuses Mr. Linder’s money. Walter works as a chauffeur for a rich white man making very little money leaving him feeling less
Roethke is describing a hardworking man that he lost at the age of 15. His family had their own greenhouse where his papa must likely work hence the reason for his father to have battered knuckles. Obviously when Roethke smelled his dad breath he knew that he was a little drunk yet he does not run away from him on the contrary he hold tight in case he miss a step. He probably placed his feet on his father’s shoes and prepare for the waltz. To me the child love this moment so much that he does not let
He dreams of his son being wealthy when growing up and being able to purchase expensive jewelry for his wife. Walter believes that money will indeed buy him happiness. He is so over his head with this dream that he leaves home and skips out on work for a couple of days drinking at the Kitty Kat bar. The point in the play where I initially began to feel sympathy for Ruth was when she found out she was pregnant with her second child. When Walter came home he didn’t care to talk to his wife.