Reviews with content warning for Suicide attempt - The Death of a Salesman

I have been thinking about this play ever since I finished it… it’s literally changed me. I cannot stop thinking about it! The ideas present are still extremely relevant to today’s standards. I LOVED IT!

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sandy_21's review against another edition

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challenging emotional sad medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

1.0

All my homies hate Willy Loman

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tree_branch's review against another edition

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challenging dark reflective sad medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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spncrsun's review against another edition

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dark emotional reflective sad fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

Great play that makes you dive deep introspectively. An underrated coming of age story.

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jin_september's review against another edition

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challenging dark emotional informative inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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thebluntbibliophile's review

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dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

A dysfunctional family, the American Dream and Alzheimer's disease makes for a beautifully depressing read. It's hard to write characters that make the reader feel so strongly as Miller does, even overtly, let alone with such subtlety. I- there are simply no words for it.

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houseofatreides's review against another edition

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dark emotional sad slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? N/A
Diverse cast of characters? N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

A wonderful story that shows the pains of making it in America.

Willy Loffman is a example of the working man who has been a company man. Going thru the rat race to make it. However thruought the story we find he has disillusioned himself about life, what it means to work and live. Hyping up his dysfunctional family. Biff his son sees thru this, and refuses to follow in his fathers footsteps into business. Instead preferring to work with his hands in areas he enjoins. This causes tensions with his family. With his father hating him for failing to do anything with his life. Thru the dialogue we find out that Willy, who is now back on comissson has lost his touch and his mind, and has attempted multiple suicide attempts. Including putting a gas fuse blocker on the furnace. To appease Linda, Bifs Mom he agrees to work on business. Thru flashbacks we find that Biff was the star quarterback in the football team, had an excess of confidence, with everyone wanting to be by him. Including his cousin Bernard who looked up to him. He was supposed to attend UV. Thru the second act, we find Biff came to terms with the lies and delusion and accepted who he is; a working man who enjoys blue collar work and doing it with his hands. His brother Happy makes himself seem bigger then he is, carrying their fathers lies. Biff had became disillusioned with life after failing math, and having gone to Boston see his father on a sales trip, where e found out his father had a extra material affair. After a confrontation with Willy, the two somewhat reconcile. Willy is happy, but with his mind gone do to stress, having been let go, and gone, he ends his life in a car crash. This leaves his wife Linda, who has been faithful to him thru his troublemaking a widow. Biff and Happy disagree how to live life, with happy wanting to go prove them wrong. <spoiler/> the book is a story of a dysfunctional family and of how the rat race consumes everyone indiscriminately. How those who wish to escape it are frowned upon. And how the American Dream of the picket white fenced house is overshadowed by the consumerism of the era and of a constant race to be the best and make the most. Where exceptionalism is shown, it’s met with the reality all are dimes a dozen. That no man is truly exceptional. All are replaceable. It leaves the reader questioning what matters. With the closing epilogue. That, maybe Biff, in his alfoones of being settled and knowing himself leads the true life. For being true to yourself and what you like to do helps. For dreaming is good, but at the cost of delusion in a harsh careless consumeristic capitalist society is deadly.

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katkatniss's review against another edition

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dark emotional reflective sad tense fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

“[caged, wanting to escape]”

Because of the title, I thought this book would be like one of O’Henry’s short stories. Instead, surprisingly, it has the same desperation of Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun. But don’t get me wrong though, they speak of quite different themes. Miller is truly a genius.

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