num_pages: 104
description: 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.'
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: 226754
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: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.