num_pages: 140
description: Willy Loman, the protagonist of Death of a Salesman, has spent his life following the American way, living out his belief in salesmanship as a way to reinvent himself. But somehow the riches and respect he covets have eluded him. At age sixty-three, he searches for the moment his life took a wrong turn, the moment of betrayal that undermined his relationship with his wife and destroyed his relationship with Biff, the son in whom he invested his faith.Miller's masterpiece has steadily seen productions all ove rthe world since its 1949 debut. As the noted Miller scholar Christopher Bigsby states in his Introduction, "if Willy's is an American dream, it is also a dream shared by all those who are aware of the gap between what they might have been and waht they are."(back cover)
language: English
title: Death of a Salesman
titlecomplete: Death of a Salesman
characters: Happy Loman, Ben Loman, Linda Loman, Willy Loman, Howard Wagner, Biff Loman
genres: Literature, American, Classics, School, Drama, Plays, High School, Fiction, Read For School, Theatre
ratings_count: 226723
places: New York City, New York
awards: awardedAt: -662659200000
name: Pulitzer Prize
category: Drama, awardedAt: -662659200000
name: New York Drama Critics' Circle Award
category: Best American Play
publisher: Penguin Books