Analyze the ways in which Death of a salesman explores the intersections of masculinity and capitalism

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analysis essay

A summary requires close, careful reading. A good summary explains the essential points of the text to someone who hasn't read it. However, a good summary is also very brief. You will probably have to draft and re-draft to cut your summary down.

Analysis examines how a text makes it point. An analysis typically takes the form of an essay that makes its own arguments about a text.
A critical response presents your judgment of a piece of writing with a thesis and specific examples from the text.

Be sure to include an establishing sentence in your opening paragraph. In it, give the title of the reading and the author's name and present the author's main idea. In your thesis, be sure to communicate your main idea about the text or your primary judgment of the text.