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Death of a Salesman
by Arthur Miller11th Grade pick #8 · 139 pages · ISBN 9780140481341As an Amazon Associate KitQuest earns from qualifying purchases.About this bookEver since it was first performed in 1949, Death of a Salesman has been recognized as a milestone of the American theater. In the person of Willy Loman, the aging, failing salesman who makes his living riding on a smile and a shoeshine, Arthur Miller redefined the tragic hero as a man whose dreams are at once insupportably vast and dangerously insubstantial. he has given us a figure whose name has become a symbol for a kind of majestic grandiosity--and a play that compresses epic extremes of humor and anguish, promise and loss, between the four walls of an American living room. --back cover