Arthur Miller's play Death of a Salesman addresses loss of identity and a man's inability to accept change within himself and society. The play is a montage of memories, dreams, confrontations, and arguments, all of which make up the last 24 hours of Willy Loman's life. The play concludes with Willy's suicide and subsequent funeral.
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DelBane, Robert. “Arthur Miller.” Encyclopedia Judaica. Ed. Michael Berenbaum and Fred Skolnik. 2nd ed. Detroit: Macmillan Reference USA, 2007. Gale biography in context. Web. 14 Oct. 2015
Arthur Miller struggled with issues of modern society. He became of age in New York City during the Great Depression, he embraces the themes of personal integrity and social responsibility, themes writ large in his immediate surroundings and his own family. He tried to illustrate an unknowable complexity in his work.
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Michael Najjar. “Death of a Salesman,” St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture. Detroit: Gale, 2015. Student Resources in Context. Web 15 Oct. 2015.
Arthur Miller’s 1949 masterpiece Death of a Salesman has been one of the greatest plays in all of the twentieth- century American drama. The play set the tone for American drama for the rest of the century through sociopolitical themes, poetic realism, and focus on the common …show more content…
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Suran, Justin David. ‘Death of a Salesman, The,” Dictionary of American History. Ed. Stanley I. Kutler. 3rd ed. Vol 2. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2003. 512-513. Student Resources in context. Web. 15 Oct. 2015
Death of a Salesman was written in 1948 and first produced in 1949. The play won New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award and a Pulitzer award.
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Zeff, Dan. “Death of a Salesman.” World Book Advanced. World Book, 2015. Web. 15 Oct. 2015.
Death of a Salesman portrays the last days in the life of Willy Loman. a traveling salesman who believed that popularity was the key to wealth and success in life. Death o f a Salesman has generated discussion and some controversy over the