Death of a
Salesman by Arthur Miller http://realini.blogspot.com/2017/06/death-of-salesman-based-on-play-by.html winner of the 1949 Pulitzer Prize
for Drama and the Tony Award for Best Play and it is included on other
prestigious lists
10 out of
10
It is for
the third time that I write a note on Death of a Salesman, which is one of the
best known plays, and one of the best, which has been adapted frequently, one
version is included on The New York Times’ Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made list –
by the way, you could try to check how many you have seen
The tragedy
of Willy Loman, the Salesman from the title that makes clear what the public
has to expect, is compelling, his name suggests for some critics (or maybe
most) Low Man, the essence of his position, he is man that has been defeated,
albeit we could also see him fighting back, trying to recover at times
Death of a Salesman
brings to mind another superb play, Glengarry Glen Ross http://realini.blogspot.com/2023/05/glengarry-glen-ross-by-david-mamet.html by David Mamet, also a favorite,
notwithstanding the recent (well, it might be six months since then, but
Einstein said ‘sit with a pretty girl for an hour and it feels like a minute;
sit on a hot stove for a minute and it feels like many hours…That's relativity”)
discovery that Mamet appears to be a Trump supporter, absurd as that seems
Actually,
as I have written that down, I do not believe it, it is tempting to look on the
internet and check, but what good would that do, we have so many ‘fake news’
out there that it would take time and besides, we have Intellectuals http://realini.blogspot.com/2014/06/intellectuals-by-paul-johnson.html by Paul Johnson to consult and see that
Leo Tolstoy, Henrik Ibsen, Ernest Hemingway, Jean- Jacques Rousseau have been
very difficult, to use an euphemism as humans, finding flaws with Mamet should
not be a shock
In
Glengarry Glen Ross we have a few salesmen competing with each other, an envoy
from ‘Downtown’ aka splendid Alec Baldwin has a now classic message for them,
showing off his watch, which costs more than the car of Ed Harris (one of a
cast that has Jack Lemmon, Al Pacino, the late Alan Arkin, prosecuted Kevin
Spacey, a dream team, nec plus ultra), the ABC of sales, which is Always Be
Closing
We have
something like that in Death of a Salesman, when Willy Loman is trying to
convince the son of his former employer to keep him on the payroll, fifty
dollars, even forty dollars would be enough for him, and let us think how great
a salesman he was, he tries to talk about the good old days, when he had such
success…
Andrei
Plesu is the greatest thinker http://realini.blogspot.com/2017/01/eminescu-si-recitatorii-by-andrei-plesu.html we have in our realm (which means
he is one of the most remarkable in the world, for we are not in any way less
gifted than the Americans…seventy million have voted with Trump in 2020, or
Brazil, where they had one idiot, Lula, then another, Bolsanaro, and the list
is long, let us stop here) and he insists that when we get old, we tend to talk
about things that are irrelevant to others…
It feels
like that when Willy Loman tries to keep his job, he lied to his family,
bringing home money he took on loan, claiming he was paid, but his wife, Linda
Loman, knows the truth and she tells their sons, Biff and Happy, about the
ordeal of their father, how he drives for seven hundred miles (was it seven
hundred miles) and he has nothing to show for it at his age, he has tried to
commit suicide
There is a
phenomenon called Hedonic Adaptation, which is presented in the sublime
Stumbling On Happiness http://realini.blogspot.com/2013/06/stumbling-on-happiness-by-david-gilbert.html by Harvard Professor Daniel
Gilbert, and it explains how we get used with almost anything, though we think
we would be p if only we were to move to California, a Caribbean or Pacific
Island (I used to dream that a Greek island will be the paradise for me, but
look at Rhodes, Corfu, they have been on fire over the last few days)
In fact, when
we make such a move, or buy a car, watch, material things, we find that The
Power of Habit http://realini.blogspot.com/2013/07/the-power-of-habit-by-charles-duhigg.html is immense - hence, it is recommended
that we spend money, if we must, but there are Stoic precepts and then the
state of the planet, destroyed by consumerism, on experiences, travel and the
like, and not on objects…
There are
situations, events that we find very hard to adapt to, such as the Death of a
Salesman, a Loved One http://realini.blogspot.com/2018/08/the-loved-one-by-evelyn-waugh-10-out-of.html loud noises (do not move near an airport,
or a loud, perpetually barking dog [as I had near me, together with the absolute
moron of an owner] because you do not get used with that) or unemployment,
which is the case of Willy Loman
Willy Loman
had not had the chance to read positive psychology, The How of Happiness http://realini.blogspot.com/2014/07/the-how-of-happiness-by-sonja.html by Sonja Lyubomirsky or else he
would have found ‘Happiness Activity No 7: Learning to Forgive –keeping a
journal or writing a letter in which you work on letting go of anger and
resentment toward one or more individuals who’ve hurt or wronged you…’
Now for a
question, and invitation – maybe you have a good idea on how we could make more
than a million dollars with this http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/02/unique-in-world.html?q=unique+in+the+world – as it is, this is a unique technique,
which we could promote, sell, open the Oscars show with or something and then
make lots of money together, if you have the how, I have the product, I just do
not know how to get the befits from it, other than the exercise per se
As for my
role in the Revolution that killed Ceausescu, a smaller Mao, there it is http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/03/realini-in-newsweek-participant-in.html
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