I love a lot of stockings. Well, good night. Every time Willy sees Linda mending her old, torn stockings, he feels guilty for what he has done. Examples of his guilty conscious are in act one and in act two of the play. In the act one we see signs of his guilt when Willy says, "I won't have you mending stockings in this house! Now throw them out" In act two Willy goes on to say "Will you stop mending stockings? At least while I'm in the house. Act 1. He is extremely flattered.
She thanks him for the stockings he has given her as a gift, and promises that when he returns she will Act 2. Chop House, a steak restaurant in Manhattan. Willy is elated, but just then notices a stocking in Linda's hand.
He tells her not to mend stockings , at least not while he's The Woman demands a box of stockings before she leaves. Biff begins to cry. Willy makes a host of excuses before admitting Cite This Page. Home About Story Contact Help. One big. In the drama, The Death of a Salesman, the play write, Arthur Miller tells the story of an old salesman who is dealing with his haunting past.
The main character, Willy, is in failing mental health, hallucinating, talking to his deceased brother, and attempting to commit suicide.
His grown sons, Biff and Happy, were home visiting, and saw with their own eyes that their father was not okay. What am I doing in an office, making a contemptuous, begging fool of myself when all I want is out there, waiting. Using the tactics presented by Foster, one can realize that there is much meaning and symbolism in Death of a Salesman. The overall theme in Death of a Salesman is the American Dream and how many people of the time period were desperate to achieve it.
Comparing Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller and Fences by August Wilson Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller and Fences by August Wilson have similar themes of conflicts between fathers and sons, conflicts between husbands and wives, and the need to focus on a small unit of space in order to achieve success.
In the process of developing these themes throughout the two plays, three similar symbolic elements are used including the insecure father figure, the "other woman," and the garden. Willy, in turn, is guilty of. The stockings recall the fullness of our lives and the importance of grounding down into our feet. In the 12th Century, French nuns, inspired by the legend of St Nicholas — who gave gold to the poor — began leaving stockings full of fruit, including tangerines, and nuts at the houses of poor people.
A Christmas stocking is an empty sock or sock-shaped bag that is hung on Saint Nicholas Day or Christmas Eve so that Saint Nicholas or the related figures of Santa Claus and Father Christmas can fill it with small toys, candy, fruit, coins or other small gifts when he arrives.
Though Santa can bring all the presents. The majority come from Santa who fills the sack left at the end of the bed. We give them one labelled from us as well, and get gifts from the children too at the same time.
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