It is not a realistic portrait, it is a demonstration both of the facts and of their import. Willy Loman is everybody's father, brother, uncle or friend, his family are our cousins 'Death Of A Salesman' is a documented history of our lives. The play has tremendous impact because it makes its audience recognize itself. It was not unusual to hear of this person in the thirties, but in the theatre of the forties he has once more become the forgotten man. Attention!' The man his wife refers to is Willy Loman, the central figure of Arthur Miller's 'Death of a Salesman.' Perhaps the chief virtue of the play is the attention that Miller makes us pay to the man and his problem, for the man represents the lower middle class, the $50-a-weekplus-commission citizen, whose dream is to live to a ripe old age doing a great volume of business over the telephone.

Self-important executives down at the storeīut talk to 'im in the morning.Attention must be paid to such a man. get the chamois to those hubcaps!Īrthur Asher Miller (October 17, 1915 – February 10, 2005) was an American playwright, essayist, and figure in twentieth-century American theater.

Among his most popular plays are All My Sons (1947), Death of a Salesman (1949), The Crucible (1953) and A View from the Bridge (1955, revised 1956). He also wrote several screenplays and was most noted for his work on The Misfits (1961). The drama Death of a Salesman has been numbered on the short list of finest American plays in the 20th century alongside Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey into Night and Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire.Miller was often in the public eye, particularly during the late 1940s, 1950s and early 1960s.

During this time, he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Drama testified before the House Un-American Activities Committee and was married to Marilyn Monroe. The Pulitzer Prize-winning tragedy of a salesman’s deferred American dream Ever since it was first performed in 1949, Death of a Salesman has been recognized as a milestone of the American theater. Louis Literary Award from the Saint Louis University Library Associates. 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. He received the Prince of Asturias Award and the Praemium Imperiale prize in 2002 and the Jerusalem Prize in 2003, as well as the Dorothy and Lillian Gish Lifetime Achievement Award.

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