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* HollywoodNerd: Bernard.
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* HollywoodNerd: Bernard. Subverted later in that [[spoiler: he DOESN'T pull a WhosLaughingNow on the Lomans when he's a successful adult and makes an honest attempt to help Willy and Biff.]]
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* ParentalFavoritism: Willy has a tendency to ignore Happy -- Biff is the one his hopes are invested in. Played with in that Happy is far more like Willy than Biff is.
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* ParentalFavoritism: Willy has a tendency to ignore Happy -- Biff is the one his hopes are invested in. Played with in that Happy is far more like Willy than Biff is.is, and Biff is much more antagonistic to Willy.
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* ParentalFavoritism: Willy has a tendency to ignore Happy -- Biff is the one his hopes are invested in.
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* ParentalFavoritism: Willy has a tendency to ignore Happy -- Biff is the one his hopes are invested in. Played with in that Happy is far more like Willy than Biff is.
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* JerkJock: Young Biff.
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* JerkJock: Young Biff. That phase abruptly ends when [[spoiler: he catches Willy cheating on Linda, and promptly disowns his father and gives up on success.]]
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** Averted in that Bernard is not cruel or condescending, and gives Willy advice.
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** Averted in that Bernard is not cruel or condescending, and gives Willy advice. Not to mention he doesn't seem to hold any bad feelings toward the Lomans for looking down on him and considers Biff a good friend.
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* AntiHero: Willy Loman, on the SlidingScaleOfAntiHeroes, is a shining example of a Type I.
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* TragicDropout: Biff became this when he gave up his chance to make up a failed exam after finding out his father was having an affair.
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* TragicDropout: Biff became this when he gave up his chance to make up a failed exam after [[spoiler: finding out his father was having an affair.]]
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* TragicDropout: Biff became this when he gave up his chance to make up a failed exam after finding out his father was having an affair.
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* ImmediateSelfContradiction: Willy Loman falls prey to this trope, calling Biff a "lazy bum" and then later saying "There's one thing about Biff—he's not lazy."
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* ImmediateSelfContradiction: Willy Loman falls prey to this trope, calling Biff a "lazy bum" and then later saying "There's one thing about Biff—he's not lazy."" In a later scene he calls his car the best car in the world, only to yell about how awful it is when a bill for it comes in.
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** The Wife's words after the death is "I'm free". Its up for debate if she meant she is now free from anguish often caused by Willy, or free as in free of debt (the play was written during a time that if a spouse died, their debt did not transfer to the living)
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** The Wife's Linda's words after the death is are "I'm free". Its It's up for debate if she meant she is now free from anguish often caused by Willy, or free as in free of debt (the play was written during a time that if a spouse died, their debt did not transfer to the living)living).
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* {{Casanova}}: Happy is an inveterate womanizer. He's certainly not above calling on call girls.
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* {{Casanova}}: TheCasanova: Happy is an inveterate womanizer. He's certainly not above calling on call girls.
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* LikeFatherLikeSon: Willy and Happy both have a hard time staying faithful to one woman, though [[{{Casanova}} Happy]] more so than Willy.
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* LikeFatherLikeSon: Willy and Happy both have a hard time staying faithful to one woman, though [[{{Casanova}} [[TheCasanova Happy]] more so than Willy.
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* NotableOriginalMusic: The stage directions specify musical cues at certain points in the play (the most persistent of which is the {{Leitmotif}} played on the flute); the music was composed by [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_North Alex North]].
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* NotableOriginalMusic: The stage directions specify musical cues at certain points in the play (the most persistent of which is the {{Leitmotif}} played on the flute); the music was composed (composed by [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_North Alex North]].North]]) at certain points in the play (the most persistent of which is the {{Leitmotif}} played on the flute), which are woven into the play in a way so that the music and the characters interact with and react to the music and vice versa.
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* NotableOriginalMusic: The stage directions specify musical cues at certain points in the play (the most persistent of which is the {{Leitmotif}} played on the flute); the music was composed by [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_North Alex North]].
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->''He's liked... but not well-liked.''
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* LikeFatherLikeSon: Willy and Happy both have a hard time sticking staying faithful to one woman, though [[{{Casanova}} Happy]] more so than Willy.
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* LikeFatherLikeSon: Willy and Happy both have a hard time sticking staying faithful to one woman, though [[{{Casanova}} Happy]] more so than Willy.
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* AmericanDream: Deconstructed as the pursuit of this is ultimately what leads to Willy and his sons' failures. In the end, Biff rejects the American Dream, convinced that it will only lead him to ruin.
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* AmericanDream: Deconstructed Deconstructed, brutally, as the pursuit of this is ultimately what leads to Willy and his sons' failures. In the end, Biff rejects the American Dream, convinced that it will [[TragicDream only lead him to ruin.ruin]]. Happy elects [[DramaticallyMissingThePoint to follow it anyway]].
* ArcWords: "He's liked, but he's not ''well liked''."
* MeaningfulEcho: "He was liked, but he was not ''well liked''."
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* [[OnlySaneMan Only Sane Woman]]: Linda is by far the most stable of the play's characters. Biff is as well, but to a lesser extent as he's still DesperatelyLookingForAPurposeInLife.
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* [[OnlySaneMan Only Sane Woman]]: Linda is by far the most stable of the play's characters.characters, although even she fails to realize what a few important things about their situation. Biff is as well, but to a lesser extent as he's still DesperatelyLookingForAPurposeInLife.
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** The Wife's words after the death is "I'm free". Its up for debate if she meant she is now free from anguish often caused by WIlly, or free as in free of debt (the play was written during a time that if a spouse died, their debt did not transfer to the living)
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** The Wife's words after the death is "I'm free". Its up for debate if she meant she is now free from anguish often caused by WIlly, Willy, or free as in free of debt (the play was written during a time that if a spouse died, their debt did not transfer to the living)
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** The Wife's words after the death is "I'm free". Its up for debate if she meant she is now free from anguish often caused by WIlly, or free as in free of debt (the play was written during a time that if a spouse died, their debt did not transfer to the living)
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* {{Leitmotif}}: The stage directions specify a flute tune at the start of flashbacks as part of PaintingTheMedium.
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* {{Leitmotif}}: The stage directions specify a flute tune at the start of flashbacks as part of PaintingTheMedium.the FlashbackEffects.
* LikeFatherLikeSon: Willy and Happy both have a hard time sticking staying faithful to one woman, though [[{{Casanova}} Happy]] more so than Willy.
* LikeFatherLikeSon: Willy and Happy both have a hard time sticking staying faithful to one woman, though [[{{Casanova}} Happy]] more so than Willy.
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* MeaningfulName: People frequently interpret Loman as "low man", but actually Miller took the name from ''The Testament of Dr. Mabuse'': "What the name really means to me is a terror-stricken man calling into the void for help that will never come."
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* MeaningfulName: People frequently interpret Loman as "low man", but actually Miller took the name from ''The Testament of Dr. Mabuse'': ''Film/TheTestamentOfDrMabuse'': "What the name really means to me is a terror-stricken man calling into the void for help that will never come."
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* ImmediateSelfContradiction: Willy Loman falls prey to this trope, calling Biff a "lazy bum" and then later saying "There's one thing about Biff—he's not lazy."
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-->--'''Willy Loman''', ''Death Of A Salesman''
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-->--'''Willy Loman''', ''Death Of A of a Salesman''
* FlashbackEffects: The stage instructions explain how Willy's imagination works on stage.
-->"''Whenever the action is in the present the actors observe the imaginary wall-lines, entering the house only through its door at the left. But in the scenes of the past these boundaries are broken and characters enter or leave a room by stepping 'through' a wall onto the fore-stage.''"
-->"''Whenever the action is in the present the actors observe the imaginary wall-lines, entering the house only through its door at the left. But in the scenes of the past these boundaries are broken and characters enter or leave a room by stepping 'through' a wall onto the fore-stage.''"
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* PaintingTheMedium: The stage instructions explain how Willy's imagination works on stage.
-->"''Whenever the action is in the present the actors observe the imaginary wall-lines, entering the house only through its door at the left. But in the scenes of the past these boundaries are broken and characters enter or leave a room by stepping 'through' a wall onto the fore-stage.''"
-->"''Whenever the action is in the present the actors observe the imaginary wall-lines, entering the house only through its door at the left. But in the scenes of the past these boundaries are broken and characters enter or leave a room by stepping 'through' a wall onto the fore-stage.''"
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* IResembleThatRemark: After Linda tells Willy he has to control his temper with Biff.
-->'''Willy:''' When the hell did I lose my temper? I simply asked him if he was making any money. Is that a criticism?
-->'''Willy:''' When the hell did I lose my temper? I simply asked him if he was making any money. Is that a criticism?
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-->"''Whenever the action is in the present the actors observe the imaginary wall-lines, entering the house only through its door at the left. But in the scenes of the past these boundaries are broken and characters enter or leave a room by stepping 'through' a wall onto the fore-stage.''"
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* BrokenPedestal: Biff idolized his father, until he found out that he's cheating on his wife.
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* BrokenPedestal: Biff idolized his father, until he found out that he's cheating [[spoiler:cheating on his wife.wife]].
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* AnAesop: You don't have to follow the AmericanDream, just find something you want to do and be good at it.
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* DramaticallyMissingThePoint: Happy, thinking he can just do better than his father at this career.
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** Arguably CharacterDevelopment, seeing as how a few scenes later he finally realizes what he wants in life and not be trapped in a delusion like Willy.
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** Arguably CharacterDevelopment, seeing as how a few scenes later he finally realizes This turns out for the best though, since it helps him realize what he wants in life and not be trapped in a delusion like Willy.
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* HeroicBSOD: Young Biff has one when he [[spoiler: catches Willy cheating on Linda.]]
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* WhamLine: [[spoiler: "Pop, I'm a dime a dozen and so are you!"]]
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* DrivenToSuicide:
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* DrivenToSuicide:DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler: Willy.]]
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* GloryDays: Willy is always hearkening back to his. They were probably not as glorious as he remembers now, though.
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* GloryDays: Willy is always hearkening back to his. [[NostalgiaFilter They were probably not as glorious as he remembers now, though.]]
* HollywoodNerd: Bernard.
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* MeaningfulName: People frequently interpret Loman as "low man", but actually Miller took the name from TheTestamentofDrMabuse: "What the name really means to me is a terror-stricken man calling into the void for help that will never come."
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* MeaningfulName: People frequently interpret Loman as "low man", but actually Miller took the name from TheTestamentofDrMabuse: ''The Testament of Dr. Mabuse'': "What the name really means to me is a terror-stricken man calling into the void for help that will never come."
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** Possibly subverted with "Happy" who never does seem to be truly happy.
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** Possibly subverted Subverted with "Happy" who never does seem to be truly happy.
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* TheUnFavorite: Happy Loman
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* TheUnFavorite: Happy LomanLoman.
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* StepfordSmiler: Happy (hence the name)
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* StepfordSmiler: Happy (hence the name)name).
* StockingFiller: The Woman.
-->''You promised me stockings, Willy!''
* StockingFiller: The Woman.
-->''You promised me stockings, Willy!''
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