Type of Document Master's Thesis Author Gros, Camille URN etd-04212009-162214 Title THE MYTHS OF THE SELF-MADE-MAN: COWBOYS, SALESMEN AND PIRATES IN TENNESSEE WILLIAMS’S THE GLASS MENAGERIE AND ARTHUR MILLER’S DEATH OF A SALESMAN Degree Master of Arts Department English Advisory Committee
Advisor Name Title Dr. Matthew Roudane Committee Chair Dr. Pearl McHaney Committee Member Dr. Wayne Erickson Committee Member Keywords
- Salesman
- Tennessee Williams
- American drama
- Cowboy
- Myth
- American dream
- Self-made man
- Masculinity
- Arthur Miller
- Death of a Salesman
- The Glass Menagerie
- Pirate
Date of Defense 2009-04-21 Availability unrestricted Abstract Most books written about American drama concern definitions of masculinity, the American dream, and the family in a society that encourages people to surpass their competences and limits. American playwrights of the twentieth century reveal the anxiety and insecurity of men who do not rise up to the standards of the American dream. In concentrating on these themes, most critics have analyzed the main characters and plots but have left aside hints about other myths. This study aims to analyse the extended use of the cowboy, of salesman, and of pirate in Tennessee Williams’s The Glass Menagerie and Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman. The recurrence of these three myths touches on the core of American drama that playwrights and critics have tried to define endlessly: the definition of the male in the American society.Files
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