Arthur Miller - Death Of A Salesman 

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Me too me too 🥲😂

J K I’m here for same thing 😭

I’m here for the exact same reason

i have to read this book in a day and a half. Help

@@jalapenopoppers9607 legit same

My god I'm not alone lol

Or you can just click "Show more" above.

PMC7009 I didn’t even realize thank you for responding

thank u sm!!

god bless you

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SocoChoco 14 yeah me too

I need this because we have to do this book in English class and the teacher didn't send the book home yet, but expects us to start doing work on it already

I HATE THIS WE ARE DOING THIS RIGHT NOW! It is BORING, I am dying inside :(((((((

Anna Weber SAME!

Anna Weber I agree

Thanks for giving the heads up! 😊

Thanks for mentioning that this is abridged

lol yup same

Breanna Leblanc lol I’m in the same situation now

Same here

@@canwegetsubsnovideossubs same

Breanna Leblanc literally doing the exact same thing lol

Same lmao

.... u didn't read shit tho

How'd it go?

It's worth reading the real thing or seeing one of the video versions that are more complete. This is one of the classics of American culture, whether you like it or not. It's one of the things people running stuff assume you're familiar with. That's one of the ways the powerful figure out who they want to work with -- shared references.

Fr it’s so scary at 1.75 speed 😭😭😭

It's her willingness to emotionally eviscerate and abandon her sons that pisses me off.

It's important to read the play keeping in mind not only how life was for women when it was written, but also the social mores of the time. It seems like it wasn't written too long ago, but according to social norms it was centuries ago. Think about how Biff caught his Dad having an affair, and the Dad blusters his way through it, giving his son an "order" and expecting it to be obeyed no matter what even while Biff's whole life was falling apart. That's pretty dang bad.

Don't worry, they'll appreciate literature once they graduate

The fact that quite a bit of the script was cut out for this version gives me quite a bit of schadenfreude thinking everyone here bragging about how they just listened to this instead of reading the whole thing must have suffered some quite karmically bad grades for choosing to take the shortcut rather than just reading what is actually a relatively short two-act play.

love the message, i dislike the writing and the author

i just listened to it because it’s harder for me to process a piece of writing if not hearing it spoken/ read. I really enjoyed this and i’ve been thinking about it outside of it being an assignment. I don’t think it’s a negative thing to process a piece of writing differently than others.

@@justjesse4788 Agreed. I use audio books in accompaniment with the actual text because it just brings a certain life to it! Plus, hearing every character's unique voice just adds so much to the story. I'm glad to hear that this real good work of fiction has had an impact on your life outside of school too :]

They did!

@@biancasirianni8312 -- well, mostly. Lee J. Cobb instead of Thomas Mitchell.

How did it go?

They might have it on youtube

Oh shit you right

This has been shortened in a few places to make it fit on a record, but nothing has been added.

From "The Burning Jungle: An Analysis of Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman" by Karl Harshbarger: 'Evidently what has caused this sudden change [in Willy's behavior] is his discovery that he was in fact hallucinating earlier in the day when he believed himself to be driving the old Chevy with the windshield open. It is Linda who mentions the windshield ("And we'll open the windshield..."). When Willy corrects her and explains that windshields don't open on the new cars, Linda insists, "But you opened it today." Here we must make a decision. Is Linda unaware that windshields on new cars don't open? Windshields that could be opened on family cars were discontinued in the early thirties. It hardly seems possible that in the late forties Linda thinks windshields open; moreover, she must have ridden in the new Studebaker. So, if she knows windshields don't open in new cars, why does she suggest to Willy that they open it when they go on the picnic? And even if one wanted to argue that she brings the subject up as an honest mistake, why, after Willy has pointed out that the windshields on new cars don't open, does she insist, "But you opened it today"? The answer must be that consciously or unconsciously she wants to remind Willy of his emotional problems. Thus when Willy says he "coulda sworn I was driving that Chevy today," Linda denies any responsibility of bringing it to his attention: "Well, that's nothing. Something must've reminded you." We can understand Willy's turning to the refuge of hallucination at the end of this scene as an escape from a long series of disagreeable ploys by Linda, the windshield incident standing as the last in the series.'

wElP im doomed

Because it had to fit on two vinyl LPs in 1950, when the LP was a recent new invention and still too expensive for most people. Adding a third one would have made it more unaffordable still.

Victor Rivera yea but how

He drove his car and crashed into a tree or river or another car.

Did he kill himself intentionally?

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Ryan Runquist do you go to Lincoln High School?

Lindsey Foreman no, Lubbock (TX)

Because vinyl records had limited playing time, and because this was intended for listeners who wanted to just hear the main outline of the story. Probably nobody expected it to be even listened to in 70 years' time, much less compared to the printed book word for word. Also, in 1950, LP records had come to the market only two years earlier and were still a new luxury item that few people could yet afford. This was a two-record set that cost $11.70, which is approximately $125 in today's money! Adding a third record to remove the need for cuts to the text would have made the price even more prohibitive than it already was.

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