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Memory in Act 1 Shows Willy as being unable to cope with the present he seeks sanctuary in the past Whilst at first the memories are pleasant they soon turn sour as his failures as a man become all the more apparent. By: Arthur Miller. Character Analysis. Willy . Loman. The . common man. Symbolizes . the cruel paradox of human existence.. Seen . as ritual head of the family.. Seeks . to discover a design in the paradoxical movement of life; . 9/2. Agenda. Discussing the end of Act II and Requiem for . Death of . a Salesman . Reviewing unit 2 vocabulary-test Friday!. Last 15-20 minutes to work on Final . Death of a Salesman. project. Act II . Introduction to Arthur Miller’s . Interesting fact: . . When Arthur Miller died in 2005, in . Newsweek . magazine Richard Schickel wrote, “Not a week has passed since the play premiered on Broadway 56 years ago this month when it was not playing somewhere in the world, playing too on our instinctive response to an instinctive work.. Arthur Miller. Born in NYC, Jewish. Attended schools in Harlem, Brooklyn. Family devastated by Great Depression. Graduates University of Michigan. Turns down Hollywood (big$) job to stay in NYC: loves live theater. of a . Salesman. Arthur Miller. American. Drama. Modern . American. Drama. Historical. Background. Great. . Depression. (1930s . to. . middle. 1940s). Fall. in . stock. . prices. , . stock. Symbolism. Look at the section involving . The Woman. . The stockings that are mentioned are an important symbol in . Death of a Salesman. . Explain their significance and what they represent.. We are given few details about the life of . 1915-2005. Background Info. Born in NYC. First success in 1947—. All My Sons. Wrote. Death of a Salesman. —1948. Married with two children at the time. Background Info. 1950—. F. ell in love with Marilyn Monroe (eventually married and then divorced). What does a playwright do?. The playwright provides the point of origin for nearly every play production...the script.. More and more today, the role of the playwright is to write the play and then to disappear. note. These notes will give you an overview of the key moments in the play.. They are not exhaustive and you will have to plan your essays carefully and may want to refer back to the play to find a different example or quotation. 1949. Death of a Salesman. Arthur Miller. 1949. Objectives. Be able to identify specific literary techniques used to characterize Willy . Discuss symbols found throughout the second half of the play. Lohman’s. monologue from Act II. Willy . Loman. Juicy Sentence. Willy (talking about Dave . Singleman. ): . When he died—and by the way he died the death of a salesman, in his green velvet slippers in the smoker of the New York, New Haven and Hartford, going into Boston—when he died, hundreds of salesmen and buyers were at his funeral.. Aim. Understand the historical context of the play ‘Death of a Salesman.’. Find out as much as you can about the following:. Arthur Miller (playwright). ‘Death of a Salesman’ and his other works. Death of a Salesman. Death of a Salesman . by Arthur Miller was first performed in 1949 on Broadway and was an. . immediate success. This deceptively simple story of the tragic road to suicide of a travelling. a. nd the. Open Traveling Salesman Problem. Traveling Salesman Problem. Objective: Given a list of cities and the distances between each pair of cities, find the shortest possible route that visits each city exactly once and returns to the origin city..