Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman, produced and published in 1949, still has a lasting effect today in the year 2001.

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                                                                Eric Lindquist

                                                                THE 1114

                                                                April 16, 2001

                                                                Dr. Kindelan

Arthur Miller’s

Death of a Salesman

        Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman, produced and published in 1949, still has a lasting effect today in the year 2001.  The play which has won several awards and the Pulitzer prize, centers itself around a salesman and his family as they fight and sometimes struggle to “make it big” in this world.  The play has been performed all over the world since its introduction in 1949, and it is still being performed and read in different languages and societies.  The purpose of this paper is to show how Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman makes his American audience question their own lives and the society that they live in and why Miller would want the audience to question such ideas.

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        Death of a Salesman is centered on Willy Loman who is a 63 years old salesman and has a wife named Linda and two sons, Biff and Happy.  Arthur Miller creates the Loman family so that everyone in a way could relate to someone in the family in one-way or another.  Many people in the late 1940’s and the 1950’s had lived through a very miserable depression, and it was during this time that the American Society and economy was changing as it was becoming more and more advanced technologically.  Times were changing and the “good old days” such as the ...

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