Arguments: In H.C. Phelps Literary Criticism Phelps's examines the uncertainty regarding Biff's love for Willy in the play. Phelps's also faults critics for easily accepting Biff's affection as the impulse of Willy's suicidal Death. He argues that Biff's statement was a tepid and ambiguous expression of concern. Phelps's also states that Willy suicide must have been caused by the last series of futile misguided gestures that made up his life.

Evidence: "If Biff does indeed not love his father, Willy's suicide must be regarded as just the last in the series of futile, misguided gestures that made up his life." (Phelps). ""Biff--he likes me!" To which Linda and Happy quickly respond with enthusiastic reinforcement: "He loves you, Willy!" and "Always did, Pop" (Miller, 133). "Linda and Happy are repeatedly shown to be among the most deluded, obtuse, and mendacious characters in the play."(Phelps). They mistake Biff's love. Other critic's thoughts of Biff's love ""Willy Loman determines to commit suicide because his older son Biff has at last openly and unequivocally declared his "love" for his father (e.g., Aarnes 104; Bigsby 123; Hynes 286; Dukore 39)." (Phelps)

Thoughts: Phelps's focuses on not Biff's love but his concern. According to Phelps's most other critics take Biff's concern for love. They feel like this act of concern summarizes Biff's love for father and that is what determines Willy's suicide, but instead he says that Willy's death was caused the collection of events that Willy lived his life by and that ultimately lead to his death.

In L. Domina's Literary Criticism of Arthur's Miller Death of a Salesman, Domina exclaims how the lack of trust in the Lohman's household created a countless amount of issues included the death of the anti-hero Willy Lohman. Domina analyzes how the ability to tell the truth and communicate had a grave effect on each of the members of the Lohman family. Each member had a secret but what they did not know that their secret was having an effect on another. Domina asserts her claim by pointing out how the lack of trust was constant throughout the novel. All the textual support used in Domina's essay strengthen her argument because she was able to portray the Lohman family issues that they tried to avoid, but which needed to be address in order for them to move on with their lives. Domina focuses on the fact that the family was broken but in order for them to protect their name and also to keep Willy Lohman for feeling ashamed, they brushed all their problems to the side and put on a facade that everything was going great in their lives. Domina came to a conclusion that the secrets in the Lohman household were not the literal ones that are stated in the novel but those secrets lead to Willy's failure as a salesman and also the subsequent failures of his sons. The assumptions made in her essay were probably formulated by the fact that Willy claims that his family is a strong family but their flaw exceed that of most strong family's which lead to the failures that occurred with him and his sons.

In Stephen Marino Literary Criticism about Arthur's Miller novel The Crucible, Marino highlights the importance of Miller's use of the word "weight" at crucial moments of The Crucible, claiming that "the word supports one of the play's crucial themes. Marino purpose of writing the essay was to trace the repetition "weight" in The Crucible and reveals how the word supports one of the play's crucial themes: how an individual's struggle for truth often conflicts with society. Marino's essay remains consistent as it analyzes the effect word "weight" and its connection to the theme. The constancy remains during the book because Marino uses logical facts from the book and from other scholars to support his argument, Throughout his studies of the book and other scholars works Marino examines that Miller also uses other constant words to portray other theme. The textual evidence in the essay is abundant as it show the reader the amount of times the word "weight" has been used in different forms to squeeze the truth out of the characters in the drama. Marino came to the conclusion that the Miller's use of "weight" in The Crucible does highlight the overall theme of how an individual's struggle for truth often conflicts with society. Marino is able to conclude this because of all the different denotations for the word "weight" which is all leading up the truth and if whether the truth is beneficial to society of not. Marino also examines the way one interpret weight in the play whether it has to do with law, religion or authority. Marino states that "the play is based on the clashes of truth between those characters who profess to speak it, those who profess it, those who live it and those who die for it." (Marino, 488). So the truth is trying to be forced out of these souls but one could only get truth if the character falls in the right category.