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The Loman Sons in Death of a Salesman

... for attention, Miller creates a character lacking the truth within himself. Additionally, through attempts to achieve a father's dream, Miller ... Happy is always telling his father, "I'm losing weight, you notice, Pop?" (Death of a Salesman, 30). Even as an ...

(3 pages) 27 0 0.0 01/Feb/2008

Subjects: Art Essays > Drama

It's an essay on Hamlet's delay in killing Claudius. It's a good paper. I got an A on it.

... Professor Dowden, to name one critic, who holds that Hamlet "loses a sense of fact" because he puts every event through his ... main character continually delays acting out his duty of avenging his father's murder. This essay will discuss how Hamlet's nature ...

(4 pages) 339 0 4.2 19/Apr/2002

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Shakespeare > Hamlet

"Farewell to Manzanar" A true story about a girl growing up during World War II. Includes a short personal comment

... a monster. Her father was immediately arrested and taken away, being accused with furnishing oil to Japanese subs off the coast. And now, Jeanne left without a father ...

(9 pages) 97 1 3.4 01/Oct/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

"Willy Loman's Idealistic American Dream and the Victimization that Ensues"... in Arthur Miller's "Death of a Salesman"

... a strong male role model who they can look up to during their maturing years. Instead, they have a daydreaming, failing salesman for a father ...

(4 pages) 92 0 4.7 03/Jan/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

"A Rose for Emily" By WIlliam Faulkner,

... accept his death just as many people cannot do; when someone loses a loved one their mind and sanity can change their whole ... notion about her father, someone who was protective of her while growing up. Emily's early years with her father showed a man who ...

(5 pages) 164 1 4.0 26/Jun/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

Shows how Joseph Campbell's model for a hero's quest has been adapted to the movie "Finding Nemo"

... his redemption. The film's heroic quest in realistic terms would be a father's search for his kidnapped son, which is somewhat of an ... taken his son. Marlin is unable to keep up, and he soon loses sight of the boat. Marlin continues in the direction of the ...

(3 pages) 48 0 5.0 01/Mar/2004

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film Review and Analysis

Death of a Salesman: The Tragic Anti-Hero of Willy Loman

... a result, he cannot love them as a father should; his love for Biff has been based on his achievements as an athlete, and, when Biff loses ... failed to be a good father, or even a father of mediocrity. Instead, as a father, he is a pathetic and selfish failure ...

(4 pages) 44 0 5.0 07/Nov/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

Comparison between "King Lear" and "A Streetcar Named Desire"

... by Stanley. In both books, we see that the tragic figure loses a great deal of personal belongings which brings about the reversal of ... heirs. Ironic but expected, Goneril and Regan do not love their father as much because of his old age and feel that getting ...

(7 pages) 20 0 0.0 11/Jun/2006

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Shakespeare

American Dream in "Death of a Salesman"

... and his son Bernard, a formerly bespectacled bookworm, now a brilliant lawyer and their relationship as a father and son has never been, ... in Death of a Salesman, Arthur Miller claims that blind faith in American Dream causes it to lose its real ideals ...

(22 pages) 97 0 4.6 29/Jun/2007

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

A Day No Pigs Would Die

... Robert loves. Because of the deaths, Robert knows the feeling of losing a loved one and is now determined to support his family. With ... "(141-142). Now that Robert's father is dead, Robert must take a giant step to fill his father's shoes. Robert must now do ...

(5 pages) 7 0 0.0 01/Feb/2008

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology

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