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Death Of A Salesman Rhetorical Analysis

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Going into the play, Death of a Salesman, I was not expecting how emotional it was going to make me. Maybe it’s just me, but by just hearing the title I thought it’ll have some type of humor in the play. And boy was I wrong. I can safely say that this play just broke my heart into pieces. Death of a Salesman is about a character named Willy Loman living in New York City in the late 1940s. He has lived in the same house for the last twenty-five years with his wife, Lina Loman. This play shows how fast perceptions of ourselves and others can bring about the ruin of a person. If someone’s life is based on a lie, then eventually the truth will come out and it’ll be too much to endure. I haven’t enjoyed a play so much in a very long time. After I finished watching this play, I was already planning on when I’ll be able to watch this play again in the near future. This is the type of play you can’t just watch once and that’s it. It’s a lecture on self-denial and its consequences. This play is just very meaningful. …show more content…

It’s surrounding his desperation, how his desperations spills over to the rest of his family. The play is very candid, whether it’s with words or actions. You begin to feel sympathetic for him because of his inability to accept change within himself and society. We’re watching a guy who has been a sales man his whole entire life and as he gets old he starts to believe that nobody wants him anyone. That he believes he’s better off dead then being alive, which just ends up breaking your heart. The play likes to address the of loss identity within it’s

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