Death of a Salesman

Introduction

Death of a Salesman is extensively considered as Arthur Miller's finest play, records the disgrace and suicide of Willy Loman, an incessantly stressed New England salesman motivated through dreams of accomplishment superior than he can attain. Death of a Salesman aggravated a good deal of debate owing to the unheroic temperament of its central character. Although the play, like its Greek descent, expresses a sense of the inevitability of fate, Willy himself possesses no greatness in either achievement or status. Willy's sheer ordinariness, rather, gives the play its power. In Death of a Salesman, Miller shows that tragedy ...