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Arthur Miller's play, Death of a Salesman contains many themes of success and failure.
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Arthur Miller's play, Death of a Salesman contains many themes of success and failure. They include the apartment buildings, the rubber hose, Willy's brother Ben, the tape recorder, and the seeds for the garden. These symbols represent Willy's attempts to be successful and his impending failure. In the start Willy and Linda moved to a home in Brooklyn, as it at the time seemed far removed form the city. Willy was younger and stronger and he believed he had a future full of success. When the script begins Willy is struggling to pay for his home, the city has seemed to grow and has smothered his house and tall apartment buildings "trap" Willy's house. The symbols in the play can show Willy's struggles and an example of this can be the rubber hose, which symbolizes Willy's stability as it shows that he has been attempting to commit suicide and...
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