Basic Necessity For All

Don’t read it if you don’t have to! Just because junk is old doesn’t mean it’s not junk. If a modern writer rolled out this garbage I doubt I would have been required to read it. I gave this book a one star rating because I don’t think it’s possible to rate a book no star… is it? There were so many things I disliked about this book, I wish I still had the book report to pinpoint them more clearly. I had to read this book in High School. I don’t know why. I can’t for the life of me see any educational value. And I don’t just hate it because it’s a bit of a snore…(which it was), but because if a teacher makes you read something you ought to come a way from it with some knowledge, a slightly greater understanding of the world or somesuch. No such luck! The story didn’t have much of a point either. I just kept thinking “What is the point?” “What is the goal of this plot (if you can call it that)?” It was like watching a dead animal decompose only slower, not as interesting and most importantly COMPLETELY POINTLESS. There is also no likeable character to root for. The main character Is a lowdown good-for-nuthing who cheats on his wife, goes crazy (not out of guilt or anything) and can’t stop feeling sorry for his pathetic self until he dies which would have been doing the world a greater favor had he completed the task on page one. His sons though still in control of they’re mental facilities aren’t much better. They’re pigs in fact. I was especially fond of the part where they remember the girl who one of them lost his virginity to. The bother who had sex with her doesn’t remember much except that she was fat and that the other brother “got him in there”. *gag* The wife and mother in this family sickens me as well, but she is so deserving of pity how can I judge her. The more of a pathetic, low-down, cry baby slug her husband is the more she loves him, sad little doormat that she is. I think I remember her doing a lot of laundry too. Anyone who can put up with a life like that and still wash her stalkings without wrapping them securely around her husband’s neck deserves one star I guess. In conclusion the only things I gained from this paltry little work are a numb behind, glazed over eyes, a slight pang of nausea and lastly the realisation that I had completey wasted several hours of my young life that can never be recaptured just to right a book report.
Rating: 1 / 5

The play Death of a Salesman was not a superior play in my eyes. Its wasn’t something that I wanted to read, but had to read. Usually when you have to read something, you start reading it and either keep reading because the plot is gripping and you don’t want to put it down or you keep reading because you won’t get a good grade if you don’t. Well, This play was one of the latter of the two. I didn’t enjoy reading it because it didn’t have a riveting story line.

The signifigance of Arthur Miller writing Death of a Salesman, I think, is to communicate to the readers that things around us HAVE changed, not everything is as “peachy” as we think it is. It is like having a cake made of asparagus and brocoli and then putting a nice chocolate icing on the top of it. It may LOOK yummy, but it’s not. People may SEEM to be happy, but they might be covering up what is really happening because they are ashamed or infuriated with what is really going on. Miller wanted to show us that things are changing around us and that things weren’t as they seemed to be. Who really knew that Willy was having an affair? I bet Linda had no idea. I bet Charlie had no idea. Willy might have been a little irate at times but surely he wouldn’t do something like that, right? Wrong. You can never really know somebody as well as you think you do, and I believe that is the poin Arthur Miller was trying to make.

In reading this play, I have found out that if you aren’t happy or satisfied with what you are doing in life (as a job) then it’s not worth it. It is better to have a job that you love and get payed just enough to get by then to have such a yucky job that it cacuses problems with your family and still get payed just as much. Willy didnt really like his job towards the end of his career. He was no longer the “big man” salesman that he used to be. He could have just swallowed his pride and accepted the job that Charlie offered him, but no, he was happy with his job, he was doing fine. When actually, he WASN’T doing fine. People no longer knew who he was, even his own boss didnt want him on the workforce any longer because he didn’t make any profit for the compant and obviously was having some probelms. He couldn’t even stay focused on his driving anymore.

I don’t recommend this play, because I did not find it in the least bit interesting. In all honesty, I found it very dull. It seemed to go on without any real point to where the story was going to. It was not my idea of an outstanding play. I have definately read better.
Rating: 1 / 5