By Arthur Miller See all 2 images Follow the author Arthur Miller Follow Death of a Salesman Certain Private Conversations in Two Acts and a Requiem (Penguin Modern Classics) Paperback - 30 Mar 2000
Works of American playwright Arthur Asher Miller include Death of a Salesman (1949), for which he won a Pulitzer Prize, and The Crucible (1953).
This essayist, a prominent figure in literature and cinema for over 61 years, composed a wide variety, such as celebrated A View from the Bridge and All My Sons, still studied and performed worldwide. Miller often in the public eye most famously refused to give evidence to the un-American activities committee of the House of Representatives, received award for drama, and married Marilyn Monroe. People at the time considered the greatest Miller.
A very tragic critique of the hollow promise known as The American Dream, and a showcase of a system that promises everything but often delivers nothing.
I like books that explain somebody's whole life in so few words. Willy was not able to bear real life: he's put too many expectations upon himself and his sons, and none of them could fulfill them.
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I loved this. By far my fav play I read this year. This should be a mandatory reading for everyone. Brutal and depressing account of the realities of working and trying to survive in America as a sales man.