Before I start, what is the story called 'Death of a Salesman' about?
The story called 'Death of a Salesman' is written by Arthur Miller, who was born in New York. He wrote this story during Great Depression.
So this story, there was a 63-year-old salesman called Willy Loman. In the past, he thought lots of people liked him because if there was one call, he thought he could sell his goods. Also, he had a good wife, called Linda Loman. By earning money, he bought a house. Furthermore, he thought his sons, Biff Loman and Happy Loman, is going to be the best in the future. He was always happy. However, his tragedy started by the decreased of income, fired from his company, where he worked for 30 years, and Biff, Happy were not going to be the best salesman as what he thought about. After he betrayed by lots of people, he was sad, tired, tragedic, and other things. By getting those tragedies, he tried to commit suicide by using rubber tubing, which failed by Biff Loman. Then during one night, he used his car to overdrive and finally died. By his death, their family could earn money (you know when someone old die, you can get money from the finance centre) which was lots of money to cover the end.
How do I feel about this? Well, this story was really disaster, which made Willy Loman to die. I could also feel this kind of thing by looking at the period when Miller wrote this story. It was during Great Depression, which many people lost their jobs, tried to sell everything what they had, and mostly, committed suicide. I think in this story, Miller showed these bad things by using the character called Willy Loman, who lost his dream, money, etc. So overall, I think this story was perfectly good to learn English and History because this story showed how disaster the Great Depressions were.
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