Reviews tagging 'Emotional abuse'

Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller

12 reviews

thirdtimesacharm's review against another edition

reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Emotional abuse, and Death of parent

Moderate: Classism and Infidelity

booooookkkksss's review

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Grief, Car accident, Death, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Emotional abuse, Self harm, and Suicide

sandy_21's review

challenging emotional sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

1.0

All my homies hate Willy Loman

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide attempt, Suicide, Emotional abuse, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Death of parent, Death, and Infidelity

thebluntbibliophile's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

A dysfunctional family, the American Dream and Alzheimer's disease makes for a beautifully depressing read. It's hard to write characters that make the reader feel so strongly as Miller does, even overtly, let alone with such subtlety. I- there are simply no words for it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Suicide attempt, and Suicide

Moderate: Dementia, Death of parent, Terminal illness, and Mental illness

Minor: Emotional abuse and Domestic abuse

ak97x's review

dark emotional funny reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse

Moderate: Racial slurs, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, and Sexism

Minor: Addiction

_sophahs_'s review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Suicide attempt, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Death of parent, Physical abuse, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Death, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

literaryinluv's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

a haunting tale about a family's destruction at the hands of the american dream

2nd time reading

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Self harm, Chronic illness, Infidelity, Dementia, and Car accident

Moderate: Toxic relationship, Death, Classism, Death of parent, and Suicide

Minor: Emotional abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Gaslighting, Grief, Suicide attempt, Child abuse, and Domestic abuse

shieldbearer's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

God, this was a lot. This play is such a well done dissection of capitalism and the American work ethic- through a hyper specific lense, but it is a classic for a reason. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Death, Death of parent, Toxic friendship, and Infidelity

Moderate: Suicide attempt

brnineworms's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

Here’s the thing: stories written by American authors that challenge the myth of the American Dream often don’t resonate with me, at least not as much as I expect they’re intended to. There’s a cultural disconnect. That fairytale isn’t entrenched in my culture and we don’t really have an equivalent that inspires that same fanatic hope. I haven’t been fed this narrative since birth, I haven’t internalised its message, I have no attachment to it and what it represents. Refutation of a belief I do not hold doesn’t shock me, especially when I find that belief to be, frankly, obvious bullshit. To be fair, Death of a Salesman was written for theatre-going audiences in New York in the 1940s, not some anticapitalist Brit reading the script in book form more than seventy years later.

The titular salesman, Willy Loman, is painfully sympathetic and unsympathetic. He’s a deeply flawed individual who still has value simply by virtue of being human. That’s the idea, at least, but without an actor’s charisma to sell the character, to make me care about him, he’s a little too unpleasant for my liking. Shifting moral standards have no doubt shifted perspectives on Willy. For example, him threatening to beat his kids may have been seen as harsh back in the day but now most people would call that outright abusive. It makes it hard to root for him, though I understand it’s not supposed to be easy to.

Perhaps if I’d seen Death of a Salesman performed instead of reading the script I’d have had a more profound experience. As it stands, I can give a noncommittal shrug and confess it said what Miller wanted it to say but it didn’t speak to me. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death of parent, Grief, Sexism, Ableism, Bullying, Car accident, Child abuse, Death, Dementia, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Misogyny, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Suicide, Toxic relationship, and Violence

Minor: Domestic abuse, Cursing, Fatphobia, Fire/Fire injury, Sexual content, Suicide attempt, Vomit, and War

milk's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Infidelity, Death, Death of parent, and Suicide