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Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman (1949)
Regarded as one of America's greatest plays, winning both the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award in 1949, Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman is about the search for the American Dream and what happens to those who never realize it. Willy Loman is the not-so-successful salesman whose dreams are his mechanism for survival. His wife, Linda, is Loman's enabler and his two sons, Biff and Happy, inhabit a similar world of dreams. What Miller ultimately concludes is that the original American Dream was not defined by material success but by success based on moral values and personal relationships. For Miller, the dream has been corrupted, with the result being that many Americans die disappointed, believing they were failures in life. |