Examples Of Foreshadowing In Death Of A Salesman

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The Death of a salesman What’s the perfect picture of the American dream? A small town house with a white picket fence with the perfect job, wife, kids and enough money to make that family happy. Well that may not always be the case possibly if you where to get lost in your own dreams of the American dream. Just seeing the title death has been foreshadowed in the play. But why does the salesman die? Well It all starts with a small family of four that live in a small town home in the countryside. Willy Loman who was a traveling salesman that obsessed with the American dream while suffering from a sickness. He is in his late sixties with a wife Linda Lowman and two boys. Biff Loman Willy’s thirty-four-year-old elder son as well as Happy Loman Willy’s thirty-two-year-old younger son. As the play starts with Willy coming home from work Sounding very worried as if had gotten into another car accident. Then going on to tell Linda he had lost control of his car and kept going off the shoulder and then could not remember any of it. Recently Willy has been drifting into another reality talking to himself reliving the past many years ago when he was happy with his life and his boys. Linda proceeds to begs Willy to try to get a non-traveling job so Willy goes to his boss Howard Wagner to speak with him. Things don’t go the way Willy plans…show more content…
charley has been giving Willy money for other times Willy has lied about his income in sales. After all the hours in a car driving to and from work alone for years. Willy has to face the affair’s and reflect on the lies he had preached about the American dream while willy sits in the car alone daily. on top of all that because his boys, who couldn’t keep jobs and get caught stealing because they were raised on a materialistic ideas. Teaching them that to fit in they must have money and nice expensive
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