Death of a Salesman
Willy Loman comes home from a sales trip he could not finish, sixty-three years old and no longer able to hold the road or the story he has told about himself. Over one day, with the past breaking into the kitchen, he and his elder son fail again to say what went wrong between them. A dream that used him up; the common man as tragic figure.
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- influenced by ↑ A Doll's House
- responds to ↑ Oedipus Rex
- ↓ The Salesman
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