my assignment

Name : Ana Nailu Rohmah
NIM : A320080163

Death of a Salesman-by Arthur Miller

1. The Character and Characterization
Major :
-Name : Willy Loman
Sex : Male
Age : 63 years old
Occupation : Salesman
-Name : Linda Loman (Willy's Wife)
Sex : Female
Occupation : Mom and Wife
Characteristic : Charitable, Patient
-Name : Biff Loman (The Loman's Elder son)
Sex : Male
Age : 34 years old
Occupation : the Loman's son
Political interest: football
Characteristic : flexible
-Name : Happy Loman (the youngest Loman)

Sex : Male
Occupation : The Loman's Son
Characteristic : Obedient and docile
Minor

- 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.

- Charley -Bernard's father who is fairly successful and offers Willy a job which Willy refuses on the basis of pride.

2. Setting

- Willy's house- Small house in New York surrounded by apartments.
- Restaurant- Restaurant where Stanley works where the Lomans were supposed to have dinner at the end of the play.
- The hotel- the hotel where Willy stays while in New York for his business trips. This is where Biff catches his father in the affair.

3. Plot

Willy Loman returns home after an unsuccesful buseiness trip. Frustrated at his lack of success, his wife Linda suggests that he ask his boss Howard Wagner to allow him to work in his home city so he will not have to travel. Willy complains to Linda that their son, Biff, who comes home for the holidays, has yet to make good on his life. Despite Biff's promise as an athlete in high school. he flunked senior vear math. made no effort in summer school and never as an athelete in high school, he flunked senior year math, made no effort in summer school, and never went to college.
Biff and his brother, Happy, who is also visiting, reminisce about their childhood together. They discuss their father's mental degeneration, which they have witnessed by his constant vacillations and talking to himself. when willy walks in, angry that the two boys have never amounted to anything, Biff and Happy tell Willy that Biff plans to make a business proposition the next day in an effort to pacify their father.
The next day Willy goes to ask his boss for a job in town while Biff goes to make a business proposition. Both fail, as Willy gets angry and ends up getting fired when the boss tells him to continue being a travelling salesman, while Biff makes a terible impression during his businessnpresentation and impulsively steals a fountain pen (an expensive symbol of status worth far more than a ball point pen). Willy then meets Bernard, who tells him that Biff originally wanted to do well in summer school, but something happened in Boston when Biff went to visit Willy there that changed his mind.
Happy, Biff, and Willy meet for dinner at a restaurant, but Willy refuses to hear bad news from Biff. the two sons decide to lie to their father, who then goes into a flashback of what happened in Boston the day Biff stopped trying to succed in life. Willy had been in a hotel on a sales trip with a young woman when Biff showed up, causing him to want to flunk math and ruin his father's dreams of his success out of spite.
Biff and Happy leave their deranged father in the restaurant for a couple of young women, yet when they return home they find their mother knew they left Willy alone. She angrily shouts at them while Willy remains talking to himself outside. Eventually Willy joins the argument, at which point Biff forcefully says that he is no longer being a failure out of spite: he simply knows he isn't cut out to be a successful business man. The feud culminates with Biff hugging Willy, telling his father he loves him.
Rather than listen to what Biff actually says, Willy realizes his son has forgiven him and thinks Biff will now pursue a career as a businessman. Willy decides to kill himself in an auto accident so that he does not want to become a businessman. Happy, on the other hand, chooses to take the insurance money and follow in his father's footsteps.

4. Point of View

- Non-Participant
The narrator does not introduce him/herself as a character because he just as a presenter of the Willy and his family of this story.

5. Style

The style and devices Miller uses enhances Willy's mental state. By using flashback and reveries, he allows the audience to get into the mind of Willy Loman and brings us into a sense of pity for him. Miller also uses a lot of motifs and repeated ideas through the play to give the viewers an idea of what Willy and his situation is all about. Personal attractiveness is an oft repeated motif. It shows that Willy believes that personal attractiveness makes one successful, but his beliefe is shot down by the success o\f Charley and Bernard who, in hid mind, are not personally attractive. Other motifs are debt which sadly the Lomans escape after Willy dies, stealing which Willy condones, even encourages, the boxed-in feeling of Willy, the idea that Willy's life is passing him by, expressed in the quote, "The woods are burning," and Ben's success and the qualities that brought about his success.

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