![]() ![]() ![]() After many years on the road as a traveling salesman, Willy Loman realizes he has been a failure as a father and husband. Miller won a Pulitzer Prize for the work, which he described as "the tragedy of a man who gave his life, or sold it" in pursuit of the American Dream. "So simple, central, and terrible that the run of playwrights would neither care nor dare to attempt it." - TimeĪ play in "two acts and a requiem" by Arthur Miller, written in 1948 and produced in 1949. "By common consent, this is one of the finest dramas in the whole range of the American theater." -Brooks Atkinson, The New York Times He has given us a figure whose name has become a symbol for a kind of majestic grandiosity-and a play that compresses epic extremems of humor and anguish, promise and loss, between the four walls of an American living room. ![]() In the person of Willy Loman, the aging, failing salesman who makes his living riding on a smile and a shoeshine, Arthur Miller redefined the tragic hero as a man whose dreams are at once insupportably vast and dangerously insubstantial. Ever since it was first performed in 1949, Death of a Salesman has been recognized as a milestone of the American theater. ![]()
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