Death Of A Husband Willy Loman Analysis

This book takes a look at relationships within a disintegrating Chicano family where past secrets and hidden desires threaten to destroy the tenuous remains of all they have built. It spearheads family secrets and sexual tensions in a study of the hopeful dream of ethnic minority integration in America. Lupe, who is a lesbian and Chicano, has always been tortured by ethical and religion bounds, and the fact that she is lesbian but cannot tell anyone. Manuel’s suicide allows for Lupe to finally realize that she does not have to love men; she can now see herself as loving women. Lupe decides she will use her best friend’s name for her confirmation. This is where Lupe finally allows herself to see her lesbian identity, and shows desire to form a

Reflection: (word: 350) I feel this is another version, or we can say, a feminist version of Death of a Salesman. They both talk about a broken father and his unhelpful influence on his children, twisted sexual acts between family members, curious male figure outside the family who has control over the father, father’s suicide allowing the family’s freedom, and criticism of the American Dream. Willy and Manuel are both failures as fathers and husbands, and cause tension within their families. Even though the reasoning behind Willy and Manuel’s suicides maybe different, the results are almost the same with both families gaining a newfound freedom. In Salesman, Willy’s family acquires freedom from his lies, such as his infidelity. This sexual dishonesty is the primary motif in Moraga’s Shadow of a Man. She is straightforward about the betrayal of family, devaluing of women, as well as the confusion about identity, and how these things may be at the center of America’s self-betrayal. Manuel did not truly love Lupe for herself or who she might become, but for her representation of control over female sexuality. Lupe was the result of Conrado and Hortensia having sexual relations after Manuel “gives” his wife to his compadre. Manuel has a weird