1. Howard Willy Happy Ben Biff Bernard The Woman Linda Charlie
Task: Draw lines between characters that ‘connect’ to each other, whether professional, family or otherwise. After doing so, on each line write a description about how they ‘connect’ to each other.
Howard
Willy
Happy
Ben
Biff
Bernard
The Woman
Linda
Charlie

2. ‘Death of a Salesman’

3. Analysing the Title ‘Death of a Salesman’
How is the title made dramatic?
Identify techniques and analyse what is suggested.
‘Death of a Salesman’
The use of the abstract and emotive adjective ‘death’ connotes that the play is tragic, creating a sense of foreboding for the play’s protagonist, Willy Loman.

4. Answer the Question How is the title made dramatic?
Identify techniques and analyse what is suggested.
Make connections to context

5. Homework Due Next Class
Research the below context areas for Death of a Salesmen. Write at least a 125 word summary of your findings for each bullet point.
Areas to research
The causes/signs/effects of depression
Consumer Society and The Dangers of Capitalism
The Great American Dream/American Dream
Freud’s dream theory—dreams protest the ego by transforming the unacceptable wish into the acceptable set of images