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Originally Posted by Ryan Foley
Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller (yes, it's technically a play, but it's still a great read). An old salesmen who wont let the past go, struggles to live on as his life crumbles around him, and he can't accept it.
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I just had to read this play for a literature class last week and it scared the crap out of me.
Not in a scary zombie type horror, or bloody horror movie type scared, but a genuine what if this really happens to me kind of thing.
Basically it's about a person who's vision of the "American Dream" is set so high for himself , his family life, and his two sons, and the fact that he comes to the realization that he will not be sucessful in the way he defines success - like his brother found success by exploring the world "from Alaska to Africa" and finding his riches in the diamond mines in Africa.
I really took this play to heart, from the influences around me to finish college and do something with my life, to the pressures to be a success, not from anyone around me per say, but seeing how the standard success stories and how I fit in to that vision, and the goals I have set for myself, and the realization that - "Holy Cow, what is that dream going to take for me to achieve that".
Anyways, enough of my rambling.
Now I have to right a response paper to that play and another longer paper about that one and other drama's.
Yay.. what fun.