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Death of a Salesman
Arthur Miller, 1949
Penguin Group USA
144 pp.
ISBN-13: 9780140481341
Summary
Ever since it was first performed in 1949, Death of a Salesman has been recognized as a milestone of the American theater.
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. 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. (From the publisher.)