The Death of a Salesman

After reading "The Death of a Salesman", I tried to compare it to "The Great Gatsby", and came some similarites and some differences. First off, both stories had alot to do with the American economy in the early 1900s. Both Gatsby and Willy Lowman have high expectations on their lives and try to be very successful. I don't think that either of them really obtained happiness although they both tried so hard. Willy wanted to have a nice house with his family, be a successful business man, and wanted Biff to succeed and be something great, but his house was full of half-finished jobs and he cheated on his wife. He was also dissappointed with Biff because he did not live up to his father's high expectations. Gatsby also did not get what he wanted. Although Gatsby was rich and successful, what he really desired was to be with Daisy, which never happened. I also found that the writing styles of Arthur Miller and Fitzgerald were similar as well. In both stories, there was a main character in which the book was about, but it was kind of more focused around another character who impacted the lives of the main character. In "The Great Gatsby", the story is about Jay but is really focused around Nick. "The Death of a Salesman" is alot like this. Willy is the main character whom the story was about, but it was highly impacted by and focused around Biff too. Both stories were similar in that the main characters were dissappointed with events or actions in their lives, and both of them ended up dieing in the end. In conclusion, I think both of these novels were great and look forward to continuing our readings to see what's next.

Focus: What do you think of my analysis? Do you agree/disagree with some of the things i said? Was my analysis effective to you?

Blogger

Throughout the last quarter we started to use blogger instead of google groups. I think this was a great switch because there are so many different things that you can do with blogger. You can upload pictures, videos, edit your work, and have a list of friends. It is also easier that you just post your work on your own page rather than replying to someone else's post. For example, if i was writing a post and was unsure about something, i could go right to Anthony's blog to see what he said and it could possibly help me out. In all i think that Blogger and all of its' many functions is a huge jump from the standard google group.