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?
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After reading your post there was a few things i did not realize about both of the stories. Both stories did have a lot to do with the American economy in the 1900s, i never thought about the stories in that way but now i understand. Also, you made a good point by saying both of the stories had a charcter who impacted the main character the most throughout the story. Great post.
ReplyDeleteI'm interested in your focus on the orchestration of these two works, on the ways in which the offer build a story around a central character through others. This might be an interesting lens to bring to other readings we will do. Keep this on the back burner.
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