What happens when a Salesman doesn’t want to travel anymore? When he shows everyone that he’s still the best, but he knows that it isn’t like that. The drama “Death of a Salesman”, by Arthur Miller, shows what happens when everything changes.
Willy Loman is a sixty-year-old traveling salesman. He is not able to keep his mind on street or on present because of that he gets in trouble. In the book he is in his mind always travelling between reality and memory focused on the moments where his life went wrong. When he starts being a salesman, he was one of the best. But as the time goes by he understood more and more that he isn’t well liked anymore. In the end he realizes that the only things you can count on are the things you can touch. His brother Ben, by now a successful man, wants to tell him that years ago. Despite this, Willy persisted that his success would come from being well liked.
Because of the travelling in time it’s sometimes really difficult to understand if it is real of if it is memory of Willy. Also the fact that Ben died is difficult to understand because Willy is very often talking to him
“Death of a Salesman” is a very interesting and engrossing book. It is described very detailed and Arthur Miller also adapted themes which are always on common, for example the changes of lifestyle habits and nature during the years. I think this is a book everyone should have read if this person is interested in a books that shows the globalization and the American dream.
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A very good start.
g/str: to keep his mind on the street or in the present and so he ... (and because of that he ...)
exp: to get into trouble
exp: book --> play
exp: his mind is wandering between the present time and the past, focussing on the moments when ...
str: When he starts as a salesman, ...
g: as time goes by .. he is ...
(The way you write this it's really difficult to choose the right tense. It's probably best always to use preset tense.)
t: ... wanted to tell him that years ago (ago + past tense)
exp: persist <-> insist: He insists that success will come ...
exp: Willy's time travels make it sometimes really difficult to ...
g: or whether it only happens in Willy's memory
t: Billy very often talks to him
I think you should start your last paragraph with: 'nevertheless'.
exp: The characters and their life is described with great detail ...
exp: themes which are universal (?) / which are still meaningful for us (?)
'in common' = gemeinsam
exp: the changes of lifestyles, habits and nature in the course of the year
g: in a book ...
It would be nice if you said something about the characters before the last paragraph - whether they are still meaningful and realistic nowadays for example, whether we can sympathize with their situation, ...
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