Death of a Salesman
1949 • 139 pages
Ratings92
Average rating3.7
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Ratings92
Average rating3.7
The blood of Willy Lohman flows in all of us. The story of the salesman who wanted more for his sons than he knew how to get, who harmed them through his well-meaning dreams but atoned with his life, is at least in part the story of all of us. That is why it is one of the most overwhelming successes of the modern American theatre.
--back cover
Also contained in:
- [Arthur Miller's Collected Plays](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL66341W)
- [Bedford Introduction to Literature: Reading, Thinking, Writing: 6th edition](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL27051398W)
- [Collected Plays 1944-1961](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15111386W)
- [Contemporary Drama: Eleven Plays](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL7507900W)
- [Literature: The Human Experience: Reading and Writing](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL14943686W)
- [Literature: Structure, sound, and sense: Fourth Edition](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL27052590W)
- [New Voices in the American Theatre](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15163013W/New_Voices_in_the_American_Theatre)
- [Penguin Arthur Miller](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL22318521W)
- [Portable Arthur Miller](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL66337W/The_Portable_Arthur_Miller)
- [Representative Modern Plays, American](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15858030W/Representative_Modern_Plays_American)
Reviews with the most likes.
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.
