Essay Thoughts

First of all, I think I will enjoy this paper more so than I have with the others. I like how we are comparing two people, one from a short play, and the other from a great movie. The two characters, Willy and Norma, are both crazy. Especially Norma. I think it will be fun to compare them.
I feel pretty prepared because The Death of a Salesman was a pretty easy read, and I thought Sunset Boulevard was a really good movie. I took notes in class, so I have a lot of points to write about.
Another thing that also helped a lot was when we took apart the poem Harlem. We wrote down what every single line meant, and this way it will be really easy to relate the poem to both Willy and Norma.
Willy and Norma are crushed by the weight of their dreams, and by the ideas they have of themselves. These two characters are obsessed with achieving their dreams, but neither of them can. My main point in this essay is to pull apart every line from Hughes’ poem and relate that to each character. I like the idea of this comparison paper more than the kinds of essays we have done in the past.