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Burning Woods In Death Of A Salesman

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In the play Death of a Salesman, by Arthur Miller, the symbolism behind the burning woods appears twice within the play. The burning woods represents the things going wrong in Willy’s life when associated with the lack of success within his family. “You’ll retire me for life on seventy goddam dollars a week?… the woods are burning! I can’t drive a car”(Miller 41). On page forty-one, Willy compares his inability to drive a car and his unsuccessful career to the burning woods. As well as “the woods are burning, boys, you understand? There’s a big blaze going around. I was fired today”(107). In his second reference to the burning woods, Willy uses it to reveal that his life is going down hill yet again, when he tells his sons he was fired. The

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