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Death of a Salesman
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November 1, 2017
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November 30, 2017

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Laura  (Reading is a Doing Word)
This is a play that has always been on the periphery of my consciousness as one I should read.
Well, I've finally read it and I'm very glad to have done so.
There are so many issues touched on in this play that I doubt I can do it justice, but thoughts that struck me:

- How it is so unhealthy always to be striving for more. Society seems centred around continuous "improvement/advancement" to the detriment of contentment. Surely this breeds dissatisfaction and unhappiness?

- The aspirational notion
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