made for yourself’’ (Kazan 198). ‘’…To me the tragedy of Willy Loman is that he gave his life, or sold it, in order to justify the waste of it’’ (miller 14). Arthur Miller’s first version of Death of a Salesman was a short story which he wrote in his seventeen, Miller in his own words said that this story based on a real man who thrown himself under a train, after that Miller in his autobiography admit that he found the inspiration of Willy Loman character in his uncle Manny Newman, a travelling salesman
07/04/2016 Essay 3: Is Death of a Salesman a personal tragedy or a social critique? Initially, Death of a Salesman is a play written by Arthur Miller. It was interpreted for the first time in February 10, 1949. Briefly, it talks about Willy Loman, commercial traveler, dismissed by its company after thirty of good and faithful service. He cannot accept the idea not to work anymore. Then His wife tries desperately to help him. The story happens in the USA, near Brooklyn, in the 1940s. Willy Loman goes