Aryuni Vidyasari
A 320080023
Class A
Death of Salesman
Ø Characters and Characterization
WILLY LOMAN : worried and angered, He is past sixty years of age, dressed quietly
LINDA : she more than loves him, she admires him, as though his mercurial nature, his temper, his massive dreams and little cruelties, served her only as sharp reminders of the turbulent longings within him, longings which she shares but lacks the temperament to utter and follow to their end
BIFF : sad, he is thirty four years old. his dreams are stronger and less acceptable than Happy’s
HAPPY : he is thirty two years old , Happy is tall, powerfully made. Sexuality is like a visible color on him, or a scent that many women have discovered. He, like his brother, is lost, but in a different way, for he has never allowed himself to turn his face toward defeat and is thus more confused and hard-skinned, although seemingly more content.
HOWARD WAGNER : he is thirty-six years old, CHARLEY : Charley is the best friend of Willy, He is kind, BERNARD : A bookish friend of Biff and Happy who urges Biff to study in high school to no avail, however, he himself makes it as a prominent lawyer and goes to argue a case to the supreme court at the end of the play.
LINDA : she more than loves him, she admires him, as though his mercurial nature, his temper, his massive dreams and little cruelties, served her only as sharp reminders of the turbulent longings within him, longings which she shares but lacks the temperament to utter and follow to their end
BIFF : sad, he is thirty four years old. his dreams are stronger and less acceptable than Happy’s
HAPPY : he is thirty two years old , Happy is tall, powerfully made. Sexuality is like a visible color on him, or a scent that many women have discovered. He, like his brother, is lost, but in a different way, for he has never allowed himself to turn his face toward defeat and is thus more confused and hard-skinned, although seemingly more content.
HOWARD WAGNER : he is thirty-six years old, CHARLEY : Charley is the best friend of Willy, He is kind, BERNARD : A bookish friend of Biff and Happy who urges Biff to study in high school to no avail, however, he himself makes it as a prominent lawyer and goes to argue a case to the supreme court at the end of the play.
Ø Setting of place and time
Setting of place from this story is the action takes place in Willy Loman’s house and yard and in various places he visits in the New York and Boston of today.
Then the time from this story is 1949.
Then the time from this story is 1949.
Ø Point of view
Point of view from this story in third-person point of view.
Ø Plot structure
Conflict: : Willy come back home from any cities in running business. But, he fails and decides to run in his hometown, Boston.
Climax : Biff confronts Willy about his suicide attempts and Willy denies everything. He tells Biff that he did not get any money from Oliver and has no hope go get any money.
Conclusion : Willy realizes that Biff loves him and decides to celebrate by killing himself by crashing the car which would give his family 20 thousand dollar in life insurance. No one but his family and Charley goes to his funeral.
Ø Style
In this story, the witer using flashback and reveries plot.
Ø Theme
Theme from this story is tragedy of salesman life
Ø The conclusion from this story is relation between man and society.
