Thursday, October 16, 2008
Thesis
The two characters that Miller creates to be most clearly opposite are Biff and Happy. Miller attempts to illustrate the material lies in the American Dream (Willy's flawed ideals) through Happy by showing him to be a weak character with the same untruthfulness as his father. In Ben, Miller demonstrates the positive path (beginning at the Boston event) away from Willy's lies and towards the positive ideological aspects of the American Dream.
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My group and Mrs. Gerber suggested that I make my thesis more concise, perhaps by just stating that Miller creates Biff and Happy as foils because... (thesis is not paragraph I see). Also I will specifically use the word foil to describe how Miller characterizes Biff and Happy. (And Biff, not Ben typo). Also, I will relate the foil concept back to going toward and away from Willy's dream.
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