Death of a Salesman by Arthur Mill operator recounts the heartbreaking story of Willy Loman, a maturing, battling sales rep who can’t accomplish his variant of the Pursuit of happiness. Willy’s confidence in private achievement and material abundance blinds him to the truth of his disappointments and the cost they take on his loved ones. As he wrestles with his dissatisfaction, Willy’s fixation on progress, alongside his cracked associations with his children, Biff and Blissful, prompts his psychological unwinding. The play investigates subjects of personality, family, cultural assumptions, and the quest for joy, coming full circle in Willy’s lamentable choice to take his own life with the expectation that his passing will give monetary security to his family through disaster protection.
Death of a Salesman
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This classic play serves as a key text for literary analysis in high school English, exploring themes of the American Dream and family dynamics.
Death of a Salesman
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This audiobook of a classic play supports the student’s literature, drama, and history curriculum.
Arthur Miller’s most famous play, Death of a Salesman, has become a key text in Western literature. This unusually powerful recording, made for radio in 1953, was directed by Elia Kazan who premiered the play. It features Thomas Mitchell and Arthur Kennedy as father and son.
Willy, a travelling salesman, based in New York, relentlessly chases material success. As the disappointing nature of his reality crowds in upon him, Willy and his family suffer the tragic cost of his delusions of greatness. A domestic tragedy, a cynical indictment of materialism and the American Dream, and a profoundly moving story of one man’s struggle to maintain his dignity in the face of continual adversity – Miller’s play is essential listening.
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