When I read “Death of a Salesman,” I recognized the cruel but truthful irony of the play’s protagonist railing against his job loss by saying, “You can’t eat the orange and throw the peel away — a man is not a piece of fruit!”
Yet that is exactly what we do. However, as educators, our job is to make sure we and our students learn from the protagonist’s suffering and try to do better going forward.
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