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	Death of a Salesman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Death of a Salesman is a 1949 play by Arthur Miller and is frequently considered a classic of American theater.
		Death of a Salesman was the first play to win these three major awards.
		Willy longs to achieve great things as a salesman and to be remembered after his death, and tries to instill this hope in both of his sons.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Death_of_a_Salesman (1677 words)

	The Hypocrites \| DEATH OF A SALESMAN by Arthur Miller
		Doors are the motif of choice in Sean Graney's moving, provocative and startlingly successful revival of Arthur Miller's "Death of a Salesman." As Graney imagines it, these hunks of varnished wood — which clutter a stage at the Athenaeum Theatre — are apt markers for the tragic life of Willy Loman.
		Arriving onstage just seven months after the death of Arthur Miller, Graney and his always surprising company, the Hypocrites, prove that there is still much to be learned from a classic, and that the more you examine this defining work, the more remarkable and soul-scouring it appears to be.
		Rejecting the tradesman's flannel shirt for the salesman's gray flannel suit, he abandons the promise of fulfillment on the frontier (the life his brother, father and son chose which he seems destined for too).
	www.the-hypocrites.com /2006/Death/rev.htm (2717 words)

	GradeSaver: ClassicNote: Death of a Salesman Study Guide - Full Summary and Analysis
		The major conflict in Death of a Salesman is between Biff Loman and his father.
		Miller readily switches from location to location during Death of a Salesman, as the flashback to Willy at home switches to a flashback of Willy in a hotel room in Boston.
		However, the funeral rests primarily on Willy's status as a salesman: it is the character of a salesman that determined Willy's course of action, according to Miller.
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	Death of A Salesman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Although the characters are not of noble birth nor possess a heroic nature nor experience a reversal of fortune, many of the elements in "Death of A Salesman" fulfill the criteria of a classic tragedy.
		Willy takes pride in the craftsmanship he put into their house, yet believes a salesman such as his father is "better than a carpenter." Furthermore, he questions the purpose of building because "some stranger'll come along, move in, and that's that." Ironically, Willy is a better carpenter than a salesman.
		Is "Death of A Salesman" a tragedy or an illustration of pathos?
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	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Death of a Salesman at Epinions.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Death of a Salesman challenges the American dream.
		Willy, despite his inability to advance beyond his position as a common salesman, still believes he lives in "the greatest country in the world." His dream of success for himself and his sons has an aura of American Manifest Destiny.
		Death of a Salesman addresses Willy's struggle to maintain his identity in the face of narrowing hopes that he or his sons will ever fulfill his dreams.
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	SparkNotes: Death of a Salesman: Context
		Many critics described Death of a Salesman as the first great American tragedy, and Miller gained eminence as a man who understood the deep essence of the United States.
		Death of a Salesman, Miller’s most famous work, addresses the painful conflicts within one family, but it also tackles larger issues regarding American national values.
		A half century after it was written, Death of a Salesman remains a powerful drama.
	www.sparknotes.com /lit/salesman/context.html (768 words)

	Amazon.ca: Death Of A Salesman: Books: Arthur Miller (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		One of the most popular and famous plays of post-O'Neill theater, Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman is the playwright's masterpiece and a true classic not only of American drama, but also of American literature as a whole.
		The family presented in Death of a Salesman -- like the families in Tennessee William's The Glass Menagerie and Cat On a Hot Tin Roof -- is, in many ways, the prototypical American family, although many would not like to admit it.
		Salesman's dysfunctional family preceded the rosier, harmonious families that would come to dominate 50's television; it doesn't take a prophet or even a sociologist to determine which of the two is more true-to-life.
	www.amazon.ca /Death-Salesman-Arthur-Miller/dp/0140481346 (2216 words)

	Penguin Reading Guides \| Death of a Salesman \| Arthur Miller
		Willy Loman, the central figure in Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman, occupies a position to which few characters in literature ascend.
		Death of a Salesman vividly portrays the destructive power of certain American tendencies, such as equating wealth with virtue and possessions with self-worth.
		With Death of a Salesman (1949), winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Miller entered the first rank of American dramatists.
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	Amazon.com: Death of A Salesman: Books: Arthur Miller (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Arthur Miller's "Death of a Salesman," while confusing when just read through the text alone, is an awesomely crafted play that takes drama to the next level.
		"Death of a Salesman" is more than just simply a stunning play; it is a beautiful portrait of a family dealing with hardships and troubles.
		On ~Salesman's~ first opening night, when the curtain dropped at the end of the performance, something strange occurred, something that had never been seen before in American theatre: the audience, a full house, did not applaud, but sat motionlesss in their seats in silence.
	www.amazon.com /Death-Salesman-Arthur-Miller/dp/0140481346 (2321 words)

	PRESS REVIEW - DEATH OF A SALESMAN by ARTHUR MILLER at the Lyric Theatre
		Death of a Salesman: 'Epitomises the hollowness behind America's eternal optimism'.
		There is impeccable support from Douglas Henshall as a neurotically insecure Biff who finally cuts through the miasma of deceit, from Howard Witt as Willy's shrewdly kind neighbour, and from Jonathan Aris, as the neighbour's nerdy son who finally makes good.
		In the year of Miller's death, it is good to be reminded what a great playwright he was and why this of all his plays epitomises the hollowness behind America's eternal optimism.
	www.deathofasalesmanlondon.com /press_review_guardian.asp (582 words)

	Death of a Salesman Study Guide
		A long time ago, Willy met a salesman named Dave Singleman who could go into a town and pick up a phone and would be able to place many orders without ever leaving his hotel room.
		Willy is the salesman throughout the play, and he is the character that ultimately dies, but the title can be seen as figurative, rather than literal.
		The true death in the play is that of Willy's dream for Biff to follow in his footsteps and become a salesman.
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	Death of a Salesman Summary & Essays - Arthur Miller
		Death of a Salesman Summary & Essays - Arthur Miller
		Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman is considered by many to be both the playwright's masterpiece and a cornerstone of contemporary American drama.
		Failure and Delusion in Miller's Death of a Salesman
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		Arthur Miller initially had the concept for “Death of a Salesman” when Miller was 17 years old and working at his father's company.
		The original story was about an aging salesman who has no luck with his sales and is ridiculed by his potential customers.
		Miller did not write “Death of a Salesman” immediately after his encounter with his uncle, since he was very involved with the production of his “All My Sons,” which had just premiered in theaters.
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	Death of a Salesman Summary
		Now he is sixty years old, a beaten and discouraged traveling salesman, with nothing to show for a lifetime of hard work but a small house on a crowded street where grass doesn't grow anymore and apartment houses block his view.
		Death of a Salesman is perhaps the greatest and most significant American play of the 20th century.
		Early in the play, Willy reminisces on a fellow salesman who was highly successful and well-liked.
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	Death of a Salesman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		It deals with the consequences when one lives their entire life believing that success equals acquiring wealth and that being liked is the best path toward success.
		For the uninitiated, Death of a Salesman is about Wily Loman (Bill McGough), an old style salesman belonging to a different generation, returning from an unsuccessful business trip back home to see his first born son, Biff (Robert McLean), for the first time in years.
		McGough has Loman down cold, playing the proud, unstable salesman to the T. His voice is high and his walk is a stuttering, broken shamble of despair, which is heartbreakingly detailed in his every action - from his hunching posture to his limp arms at his sides all the time.
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	NovelGuide: Death of A Salesman: Theme Analysis
		Death of A Salesman has several themes that run throughout the play.
		Though he’s a disrespected salesman, he calls himself the “New England man.” Though Biff has done nothing with his life by the age of thirty-four, Willy tells others and tries to make himself believe that his son is doing big things” out west.
		In many ways, Death of A Salesman has a tragic theme consistent with great tragedies such as Oedipus the King and others.
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	Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman/Craig Garrison..page1
		In Arthur Miller's moving and powerful play, "Death of a Salesman", Miller uses many character to contrast the difference between success and failure within the system.
		Willy is the dreamy salesman whose imagination is much larger than his sales ability, while Linda is Willy's wife who stands by her husband even in his absence of realism.
		Biff and Happy are the two blind mice who follows in there father's fallacy of life, while Ben is the only member of the Loman family with that special something needed to achieve.
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	Death of a Salesman Book Notes Summary by Arthur Miller: Act 1, Part 1
		Death of a Salesman Book Notes Summary by Arthur Miller: Act 1, Part 1
		Willy Loman, a sixty-year-old traveling salesman, enters his home late at night with two large sample cases.
		The boys are awake in their room over the invisible living room, and they overhear the end of their parents' conversation and Willy's muttering.
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	TIME.com Print Page: -- Death of the Salesman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		There was another struggle in Miller, who died today at 89: between the polemicist's need to blame society for its ills and the artist's gift for discovering shadings, ambiguities, in the best or worst of men — for fleshing caricature into character.
		Death of a Salesman was the first work to win the playwright's Triple Crown: the Tony Award, the New York Drama Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize.
		After the Fall came in 1964, a mere two years after Monroe's death; directed by Kazan, it starred Jason Robards, Jr., as Quentin (Miller) and Barbara Loden as Maggie (Marilyn); ten years later there was a TV movie, with Faye Dunaway and Christopher Plummer.
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	Death of a Salesman
		In Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman, we follow Willy Loman as he reviews a life of desperate pursuit of a dream of success.
		In this classic drama, the playwright suggests to his audience both what is truthful and what is illusory in the American Dream and, hence, in the lives of millions of Americans.
		Do you agree that the primary theme of Death of a Salesman is the conflict between father and son and between firstborn and second-born sons?
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	Study of Death of a Salesman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Salesman Concordances Every word of the play is indexed and connected to its textual context.
		Steinbeck's defence Transcript of John Steinbeck's defense of Miller's refusal to be bullied by the HUAC, which originally appeared in Esquire, June 1957.
		There is a list of primary works, and a bibliography, with separate sections on Death of a Salesman and The Crucible.
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	Death of a Salesman, a CurtainUp review
		For Elyse Sommer's Second Thoughts on the production go go here As soon as Willy Loman appears in the doorway of his Brooklyn house lugging his sample cases filled with empty dreams, sections of the house separate and drift apart, suggesting the Loman family itself, whose members seem to move in separate orbits.
		This striking initial image of Robert Fall's powerful 50th anniversary production of Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman introduces us to a production that strips away notions that we're meant to view Willy's downfall as a condemnation of society.
		His Willy has a salesman's quick, eager smile and expansiveness, yet he is never far from the rage and bewilderment that keep him shambling between the dismal present and the hallucinatory past.
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	Online NewsHour: Arthur Miller Discusses His Life and Work -- February 10, 1999
		When Miller's masterpiece "Death of a Salesman" returned to Broadway in 1999 to celebrate its 50th anniversary, the artist sat down with Paul Solman to discuss his life and work.
		PAUL SOLMAN: February 10, 1949, "Death of a Salesman" starring Lee J. Cobb premiered in New York.
		ARTHUR MILLER: Columbia Pictures made a film called "The Life of a Salesman" which they wanted to show with the "Death of a Salesman." It was short, the brunt of which was that "the life of a salesman" was.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/entertainment/jan-june99/miller_2-10.html (1898 words)

	Notes and Questions for Death of a Salesman
		It is a symbol of his desire for death.
		Dave Singleman is the salesman who at the age of eighty-four made his living.
		It is Dave Singleman who died the death of a salesman.
	www.masconomet.org /teachers/trevenen/salesman.html (1592 words)

	'Death of a Salesman' Returns Tonight
		Tickets are $20 regular admission and $18 for students and senior citizens, with group rates also available, and are available by calling the Croswell at 264-7469, visiting the box office at 129 E. Maumee St.
		Adrian's Terry Hissong plays the role of Willy Loman, the traveling salesman who's spent his whole life “way out there in the blue, riding a smile and a shoeshine,” just as he did in the Croswell's 1985 production of the show.
		And so, what Croswell audiences will see is a faithful reproduction of the original set design by Jo Mielziner, who after he'd worked on “Death of a Salesman” even wrote an entire book centering on the process.
	www.croswell.org /death_of_a_salesman_returns_tonight.htm (896 words)

	Playbill News: Death of a Salesman Opens in London May 16
		Brian Dennehy and Elizabeth Franz in the Broadway revival of Death of a Salesman
		Unlike Philadelphia Story, however, Arthur Miller’s Salesman is not a rarity here, with stagings in recent years starring the likes of Alun Armstrong and Warren Mitchell.
		A U.S. TV version of Death of a Salesman bagged him a Golden Globe.
	www.playbill.com /news/article/92939.html (490 words)

	Death of a Salesman
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