Death of a Salesman

       Death of a Salesman has all the aspects of SOAPST. It is a play so this play does not have one specific speaker. Its main speakers would be Biff, Happy, Willy, and Linda. They are the main characters in the play. The occasion of this play would be during the 1940s in Brooklyn, New York. You could easily picture life in New York because the lifestyle that is present in the play is a typical life people in the 1940s would be living. Especially the fact that during this time all the house in Brooklyn were being torn down so apartment buildings rise. The audience to this play would be anyone who is willing to read the play. That would usually be us students, or even people who are actually present when the play is being performed.
      There are multiple purposes to this play. One would be to inform to us the lifestyle that people lived through during the 1940s. Another purpose would be to tell us the economic problems family's had to overcome. Finally, the main purpose is to explain to us that we should always make our parents proud. They do everything for us, and if we becoming "people" in the real world that means everything for them. The subject of this play is also life during the 1940s which includes hardships and economic problems. There are multiple tones for this play. One would be serious, because the father is always serious when he talks. Finally the last tone would be sad and influential. It is sad because of the fact that the father got fired from his job. It is influential because it always tells us that we should make the best out of our lives and not take it to waste.