Death of a Salesman
Ratings172
Average rating3.6
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Ratings172
Average rating3.6
An ordinary man's struggle to leave his mark on the world
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 63, 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.
Willy lives in a fragile world of elaborate excuses and daydreams, conflating past and present in a desperate attempt to make sense of himself and of a world that once promised so much.
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A great expression of a kind of pitiful despair and rage. I really need to see this performed as the staging sounds really interesting and I can imagine how the language would sound coming from good actors.
Literally, in many ways this book has wrapped its fingers around, gripping and intense, this I suppose is one of the traits of Arthur Miller's plays, which has shown itself to be very effective in grasping my attention and keep me attached to the book throughout the reading process.
Whatever this book's underlying message is about, I don't really care. The thing is whether it is about the American dream like in the Great Gatsby, it is simply not going to affect the play's awesomeness. I wasn't used to reading scripts so I thought I might be more lenient in this than others. Anyways, a lively story entailed by a load of struggles, peeling off like an onion, layer by layer, and whatever's in the core, we might never know.
