Oedipus Complex in Death of a Salesman

Death of a Salesman depicts the painful conflicts among the members of a family, examines the American citizen’s values and analyzes people’s prize they paid and the tragedy it brought ab-out for blinding believing in American Dream. This paper aims to analyze the work from the aspect of Oedipus complex which was put forward by psychoanalyst Freud, including Oedipus complex’s influ-ence on literature works and on Biff in this drama. Only in this way can we better understand the tragedy cause of this family.

Death of a Salesman depicts the painful contlicts among the members of a family, examines the American citizen＇s values and analyzes people＇ s prize they paid and the tragedy it brought ab. out for blinding believing in American Dream. This paper aims to analyze the work from the aspect of Oedipus complex which was put forward by psychoanalyst Freud, including Oedipus eomplex＇s influ ence on literature works and on Biffin this drama. Only in this way can we better understand the tragedy cause of this family.