Death of a Salesman | Death of a Salesman

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Author: Arthur Miller
First Published: 1949
Type of Work: Play
Type of Plot: Tragedy
Time of Work: Mid-twentieth century
Setting: New York and Boston
Genres: Social realism, Drama, Tragedy
Subjects: New York, North America or North Americans, Northeast, U.S., United States or Americans, Parents and children, Suicide, Twentieth century, New York City, 1940’s, Yards or backyards, American Dream, Fathers, Death or dying, Sales personnel, Selling
Locales: Boston, MA, Brooklyn, NY

Characters Discussed

Willy Loman, a sixty-three-year-old traveling salesman who has begun to dwell on the past and not to know where he is. In the last two days of his life, his past rolls before him. He is a father who loves his sons and wants them to have worldly success, although he does not know how to help them achieve it. His last gesture for his son Biff is to commit suicide so that the son can have the insurance money.

Biff Loman, Willy’s thirty-four- year-old son, who is still trying to find himself. A high-school athlete, he gets nowhere after graduation....

Death of a Salesman | Death of a Salesman

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