The death of Salesman (Second Drama Task)

RATNA ADI TEJANINGRUM
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Class G

1. The character and characterization of player:
• Willy Loman An aging salesman haunted by a feeling that his life has been a failure. He hallucinates about past events focusing on his dreams for a better tomorrow; the future of his son, Biff, a star football player; and a woman with whom he had an affair while on a sales trip. During his hallucinations, he sometimes talks to himself.
• Linda Loman : Willy’s loyal wife. She accepts her role as a devoted and subservient housewife.
• Biff Loman : Willy’s older son, who has trouble holding a job and getting along with his father. After he returns home from the West, his presence and his failure to get a job exasperate Willy.
• Happy Loman : Willy’s younger son, who has a steady job but is afraid to take risks to better himself
• Charley: Successful businessman who lives next door to Willy. Willy envies him because he is a constant reminder of what Willy is not. Willy snidely says Charley “is liked, but not well liked.” Nevertheless, Charley lends Willy money and even offers him a job.
• Bernard: Charley’s son. He is intelligent, hard-working, and successful–everything Biff Loman is not.
• Ben: Willy’s deceased older brother, who appears only in Willy’s hallucinations. He struck in rich at an early age in South African diamond mines. He symbolizes the success that has eluded Willy.
• Howard Wagner: The son of Willy's former boss, Frank Wagner, whom Willy admired. Howard, who is now Willy’s boss, represents a new breed of business executive, interested more in advancing technology than people. He fires Willy because of his inability to perform satisfactorily.
• Stanley: A waiter at a bar/restaurant where Willy meets his sons.
• The Woman: An employee of a Boston company who has an affair with Willy. She is one of the subjects of his hallucinations.
• Miss Forsythe and Letta : Attractive young women whom Hap and Biff meet in the bar/restaurant.
2. Plot
- Conflict,
- complication,
- climax,
- suspense,
- denouement,
- conclusion
3. Setting
The major setting of the death of salesman is in New York City, and the other setting are around the Brooklyn house of Willy Loman, and in a restaurant.

4. Language Style
- In the death of salesman used traditional grammatical structure (in narration and dialogues).
- In the death of salesman used standard and simple sentence construction (in narration and dialogues). So, it is easy to understand.

5. Point of View
The author of the death of salesman drama, Arthur Miller is as non-participant. He doesn’t introduce himself as a character in this drama story.

6. Theme
By write this play, Miller wants to invite the reader for following his/her heart. Not just follow desires feeling to fulfill the meaningless position of our occupation. We asked to know our strengths and weaknesses. Hard work is what pays off. In general we must distinguish between reality and illusion..

7. Conclusion
In “Death of Salesman” Arthur Miller want to criticism about condition and situation in America. In America was enjoying an economic boom that initiated a significant trend. The absorption of small businesses by large corporations that reduced the importance of the individual worker and increased the importance of the company as a whole and its bottom line. So, I can conclude that in the death of salesman drama story including to MAN VS SOCIETY.