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I agree with the critical lens which states “The best literature may entertain readers or disturb them, but above all, it must make them think”. This statement means that the most important thing a book can do is to make the readers think about what he/she reads. It doesn’t matter if the story is enjoyable or upsetting, if it achieves this goal. This is true in the two pieces of literature. In Death of a Salesman, you start thinking about the story, when he gets the flashbacks, and he knows, that he did something wrong in his life. But he doesn’t seem like he want to change it. He thinks you need to be well liked, to succeed in your life. But that is wrong. You don’t need to be well liked to succeed, it’s more about what and how you do it, and that is it, what that book makes you thing about. Willy is too much in his own world. When he became the salesman, he thought, that it would me easy to make sales, just over the phone, like the one Salesman did, that impressed him to become a salesman. Even whe