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KMID : 0974620020200020399
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Bulletin of Dongnam Health University
2002 Volume.20 No. 2 p.399 ~ p.415
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Troubled Masculinity in Death of a Salesman
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Wang Young-Gyun
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Abstract
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Male characters in American dramas have been treated as universal referents ? their stories are viewed by critics as encompassing dynamics relevant to humanity rather than specifically to men. Such an approach tends to write over the status of individual men in a desire to empower their voices as universal, thereby both avoiding the lived experiences of the individual man whose life may not fit this universal pattern and fallaciously assuming to speak for different men or gender groups. But one of the recent trends in studies of modern American dramas affected by feminist theories and men’s studies has viewed that gender, as opposed to biological sex, is a construct. Thus these studies pose a question about the traditional gender role. The traditional gender role in America was constructed by the social, cultural myth shared by Americans. Gender role must, therefore, be changed according to the changes of the times. This study focuses the American myth of masculinity and examines the troubled masculinity of the male characters in Death of a Salesman by the effects of the American myth of the traditional masculinity. in particular the masculinity of fathers.
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