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(5pp) This is the American dream, turned nightmare,
the story of a simple, flawed man who spends an
entire lifetime trying to become the man he sees
reflected in his loved ones' eyes. Over fifty years
fall away and Miller's work is as fresh as the day
it was written, as challenging, as frightening, as
thought-provoking and, ultimately, as devastating.
It has been said of Miller's text, 'some plays grow
with time, some plays define a time. Death of a
Salesman does both. ' Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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become the man he sees reflected in his loved ones eyes. Over fifty years fall away and Millers work is as fresh as the day it was written, as challenging,
as frightening, as thought-provoking and, ultimately, as devastating (Coulbourn ppg). It has been said of Millers text, "some plays grow with time, some plays define a time. Death of a
Salesman does both " (http://coyote.odessa.edu/ staff_dept/mulry/Miller/body_miller.html). The Dream America has long been known as a land of opportunity. Out of that thinking comes the "American Dream," the idea
that anyone can ultimately achieve success, even if he or she began with nothing. In Arthur Millers Death of a Salesman, we follow Willy Loman as he reviews a life
of desperate pursuit of a dream of success. Yet his own dreams and evasions have kept Willy Loman from seeing himself as he is, rather than steering a flexible course.
In this classic drama, the playwright suggests to his audience both what is truthful and what is illusory
in the American Dream and, hence, in the lives of millions of Americans. Unusual in its presentation of a common man as a tragic figure, the play received the Pulitzer
Prize as well as the New York Drama Critics Circle Award when it was produced and published in 1949.
About the writing of the play, Miller says, "I wished to create a form which, in itself as a form, would literally be the process of Willy Lomans way
of mind" To accomplish this, Miller uses the sense of time on stage in an unconventional way to illustrate that, for Willy Loman, ". . . the voice of the
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