Death of a Salesman

Download or read book Death of a Salesman written by Arthur Miller and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2013-05-03 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the spring of 1948 Arthur Miller retreated to a log cabin in Connecticut with the first two lines of a new play already fixed in his mind. He emerged six weeks later with the final script of Death of a Salesman - a painful examination of American life and consumerism. Opening on Broadway the following year, Miller's extraordinary masterpiece changed the course of modern theatre. In creating Willy Loman, his destructively insecure anti-hero, Miller himself defined his aim as being 'to set forth what happens when a man does not have a grip on the forces of life.'