Essays Tagged: "traveling salesman"

Coping With Alienation in "The Metamorphosis" By Franz Kafka, and in Jerzy Kosinski's "The Painted Bird"

ovel.The novel opens with Gregor in his monstrous state, late for work. He infers that his job as a traveling salesman is very consequential, yet he is growing tired and frustrated, "The upset of doin ... ss is much worse than the actual business in the home office, and, besides, I've got the torture of traveling, worrying about changing trains, eating miserable food at all hours, constantly seeing new ...

(8 pages) 106 0 3.0 Mar/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Tennessee Williams: A Great American Author.

ersmen. Cornelius and Edwina married and continued to live in Mississippi. Cornelius had a job as a traveling salesman. Thomas became sick with diphtheria at age five which is how his love for literat ...

(10 pages) 103 0 5.0 Apr/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Authors

"The Metamorphosis" by Franz Kafka.

ended on him for their happiness. The debts incurred by his parents forced Gregor into his job as a traveling salesman, a job that was extremely tiring and unrewarding. Gregor's loyalty and devotion t ...

(5 pages) 100 0 5.0 Apr/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

Tennessee Williams.

life started in the small town of Columbus Mississippi. Tennessee's parents Cornelius Coffin were a traveling salesman for a shoe company. Even Williams started writing at an early age, he showed inte ...

(4 pages) 150 0 4.3 May/2003

Subjects: Humanities Essays

Death of a Salesman - The Pursuit of the American Dream

eam.' This dream is the dream of wealth and success. The author's main character, Willy Loman, is a traveling salesman that spends his whole lifetime trying to find success based on looks and populari ...

(5 pages) 212 1 4.3 Dec/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Kafka and Alienation

) by Franz Kafka are two examples that I will use to demonstrate this point. In The Metamorphosis a traveling salesman living with his family wakes up one morning to find that he is now a giant insect ...

(2 pages) 76 0 4.0 Feb/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

Nabokov's Interpretation of the Metamorphosis

v's View on "The Metamorphosis""The Metamorphosis," a story by Franz Kafka is about an ordinary traveling salesman, Gregor Samsa, who suddenly transforms into a "monstrous vermin." What exactly t ... ed as a pathetic and depressing life. He took a job with one of his father's creditors and became a traveling salesman. Gregor has to deal with,"...the torture of traveling, worrying about changin ...

(6 pages) 57 0 5.0 Mar/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller

Willy, yet the dream has somehow passed him by. Now he is sixty years old, a beaten and discouraged traveling salesman, with nothing to show for a lifetime of hard work but a small house on a crowded ... to work for Howard's father is not interested in the salesman's problems. When Willy asks that his traveling be cut down, Howard summarily fires him. Broken, Willy stops to see his old neighbor-buddy ...

(7 pages) 109 0 4.0 Apr/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

The Metamorphosis

ls. Above the table on which a collection of cloth samples was unpacked and spread out--Samsa was a traveling salesman--hung the picture which he had recently cut out of an illustrated magazine and pu ... an doing the actual business in the home office, and on top of that there's the trouble of constant traveling, of worrying about train connections, the bad food and irregular meals, casual acquaintanc ...

(85 pages) 97 0 4.5 May/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Death of a Salesman compared to "On Firing a salesman"

The play "Death of a Salesman" by Arthur Miller describes the tragic downfall of Willy Loman, a traveling salesman, and how his demise affects the people around him. The poem "On Firing a Salesman ...

(2 pages) 74 0 5.0 May/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

Metamorposis- the real metamorphosis involved only the family

hanges. Gregor'slife before the metamorphosis was limited to working and caring for hisfamily. As a traveling salesman, Gregor worked long, hard hours that leftlittle time to experience "life." He ref ... ours that leftlittle time to experience "life." He reflects on his life acknowledging the"plague of traveling: the anxieties of changing trains, the irregular,inferior meals, the ever changing faces, ...

(7 pages) 153 0 4.3 May/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Death of a Salesman

Death of a Salesman As the play opens, Willy Loman, who has been a traveling salesman for 35 years, returns home after having just left for a sales trip to New England ... cides that he too will see his boss the following day and ask for a New York position rather than a traveling job. The first day ends with the bright hope that Willy, Biff and Happy will achieve their ...

(2 pages) 44 1 3.4 May/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

Comparison of themes in The Metamorphosis, by Franz Kafka, and The Great Gatsty, by F.Scott Fitzgerald

books the pursuit of materialism is a negatively portrayed theme. In The Metamorphosis Gregor is a traveling salesman whose concern is to provide his family with a comfortable life. Although he does ...

(1 pages) 21 0 5.0 Nov/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Rejection: It's a Lonely State (Kafka and Freud)

nges. Gregor's life before the metamorphosis was limited to working and caring for his family. As a traveling salesman, Gregor worked long, hard, strenuous hours that left little time to experience hi ...

(4 pages) 31 0 3.0 Nov/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka, Symbolistic Essay.

himself to what he truly loved, writing. The main character in this story, Gregor Samsa, works as a traveling salesman. He, as Kafka also dislikes his job and aspires to something else:"What a gruelin ... ss is much worse than the actual business in the home office, and, besides, I've got the torture of traveling, worrying about changing trains, eating miserable food at all hours, constantly seeing new ...

(2 pages) 94 0 4.3 Nov/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

A character sketch of Gregor from the story "Metamorphosis"

his family. Gregor working to pay off his family debt has resigned him to a lifetime of work. As a traveling salesman, Gregor worked long hours and he didn't get to experience much of life. He took h ...

(2 pages) 31 2 4.0 Feb/2005

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

2 Characters and 2 Symbols Book:Death Of A Salesman Author:Arthur Miller

t about, and get rid the memory of, the betrayal to Linda and Biff. Willy Loman is an insecure, sad traveling salesman. Willy believes with all his heart in the American Dream of easy success and weal ...

(1 pages) 31 0 0.0 May/2005

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

From start to finish contradictory talks about Willy's obligations but does none that ruined his whole life.

Willy Loman is a traveling salesman that playing the roles of father and husband in the whole family. There are lots ...

(4 pages) 21 0 1.0 Jun/2005

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

"The Metamorphosis" - Kafka : Analyzing the reasons behind Vladimir Nabokov's critique

a nightmare is a dream forged from the inner reality of yourself. In "The Metamorphosis" by Kafka a traveling salesman named Gregor is mysteriously turned into a dung beetle, which not even his family ... ight forwardness of the characters, making a dream state even more clear. Gregor hated his job as a traveling salesman but accepted it by telling himself that when he repays the debt he owes his famil ...

(3 pages) 30 0 1.0 Apr/2006

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

The Dramatic Change: Brief overview of "The Metamorphosis" by Franz Kafka

to accept their inner feelings and troubles. In Franz Kafka's "The Metamorphosis", Gregor Samsa, a traveling salesman, goes through a transformation that changed his life and the way he viewed the wo ...

(4 pages) 14 0 0.0 May/2006

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature