![]() If I’d had known I would have watched it in high school and not been the least bit sorry about skipping my homework this time around. They adapted the play into a movie with Dustin Hoffman and John Malkovich in 1985. And, I didn’t like to listen to them either. ![]() The dialogue also went off on too many tangents: no one listened to each other, they just liked to hear themselves talk. I guess to spark discussion on the American Dream and such, and I get that but the adult me just felt like they whined too much. Not sure why it was required reading in school. I felt accomplished checking off another book from my reading list (at least it gave me that). It is a very quick read and only took a few hours. Willy lives in a fragile world of elaborate excuses and daydreams, conflating past and present in a desperate attempt to make sense of himself and of a world that once promised so much. At age 63, he searches for the moment his life took a wrong turn, the moment of betrayal that undermined his relationship with his wife and destroyed his relationship with Biff, the son in whom he invested his faith. ![]() But somehow the riches and respect he covets have eluded him. ![]() Willy Loman, the protagonist of “Death of a Salesman,” has spent his life following the American way, living out his belief in salesmanship as a way to reinvent himself. ![]()
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