Death of a Salesman SOAPST

    Death of a Salesman is a play written by Arthur Miller. The novel is mainly about a salesman, Willy Loman. He worked hard all his life striving for success, but is at the edge of falling. His family is in the depths of poverty, and he is trying his hardest to provide for them. Willy kept having hallucinations about his happier years, and that sparked some different answers as well. The speaker of the play is unknown, but you can assume Arthur Miller is the narrator. The story takes  place in New York during the 1940s, where the idea of the "American Dream" was popular amongst people. Many people came to America to make their dreams come true of that perfect family. The Loman family lived in the depths of Brooklyn, surrounded with apartments and no sunshine.
 The audience of the play is whoever reads it or watches the play. He tried to connect to the audience in a whole other way, trying to make the audience step into his shoes and experience life through his perspective. The purpose of this play/novel was to inform the audience about life in the forties, and the American Dream. The subject was the American Dream and betrayal. This was a great book, and I enjoyed reading every detail of it.

Character from Death of a Salesman

     Death of a Salesman was a fascinating and brilliant novel. The character that I identify myself with most would have to be Happy Loman. In the play, he was not always happy, but he always thought of himself as being successful and working harder than Biff. Happy, even if he thought his father was an embarrassment, he took control of his dream, and at the end of the novel built a business to continue it. Unlike Biff, Happy accomplished something. Happy was the one being ignored throughout the whole novel, because his father preferred Biff over him, so he craved some attention.
     I am like Happy in many different ways. One example is that we both strive for perfection and happiness. Happy tried making everyone around him pleased and happy, just like me. He wanted it all to be perfect, and I always try my best to be perfect, but no one is perfect. Happy was always stuck behind his older brother's shadow, and felt unappreciated. I am the older sibling, but at times I do feel left out and less important and crave the attention. I, just like Happy, try my best to show the world who I really am and will be. Myself.