In the person of Willy Loman, the aging, failing salesman who makes his living riding on a smile and a shoeshine, Arthur Miller redefined the tragic hero as a man whose dreams are at once insupportably vast and dangerously insubstantial. The Pulitzer Prize-winning tragedy of a salesman's deferred American dreamĮver since it was first performed in 1949, Death of a Salesman has been recognized as a milestone of the American theater. The tragedy of a typical American-a salesman who at the age of sixty-three is faced with what he cannot face defeat and disillusionment. This listing is for brand new copies- "First published by Viking Penguin, Inc., 1949"-T.p.
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