num_pages: 139
description: The Pulitzer Prize-winning tragedy of a salesman’s deferred American dream Ever since it was first performed in 1949, Death of a Salesman has been recognized as a milestone of the American theater. 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. He has given us a figure whose name has become a symbol for a kind of majestic grandiosity—and a play that compresses epic extremes of humor and anguish, promise and loss, between the four walls of an American living room.source: penguinrandomhouse.com
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: 226695
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