Resumo de Death Of A Salesman

          Arthur Miller''s Death of a Salesman stems from both Arthur Miller''s personal experience and the theatrical traditions in which the playwright was schooled . The play recalls the traditions of Yiddish( a Germany slang that is used by the Jewishs of Soviet Uinon )theater that focus on family level. This is particulary evident in the family structure within the play , concerning two sons estranged from their father . This has paralles to another on of Miller''s major works , All my sons, which premiered two years before Death of a Salesman.
          Although the play premired in 1949, Miller began writing Death of a Salesman at the age of seventeen when he was woking for his father''s company. In it''s short story form, it concerned an aging salesman who cannot sell anything , is berated by company bosses and most borrow subway change from the young narrator.The end of the manuscript contain a postscript that the salesman on which the story is based had thrown himself under a subway train .
         Miller reworked the play in 1947 upon a meeting with his uncle ,Manny Newman, a salesman who was comptitor at all time , even with his sons ,Buddy and Abby. Miller described the Newman household as one in which one could not lose hope, and based the Loman household and structure on his uncle and cousins. There are numerous parallels between Abby and Buddy Newman and fictional counterparts,Happy and Biff Loman ; Buddy like Biff , was renowned high school athlete who failed high school . Miller''s relationship to his cousins pararlls that between the Lomans and their neighbor ,Bernard .
          In the play ,Miller was intent to creat a play with continous action that could neverthless span different time periods. The major innovation of the play was the fluid continuity between segmants of the play in which flashback''s didn''t occur as separate from the normal action but rather as integral to the action of the play.The play thus moves from the present day to fifteen years before, and from Brooklyn to Boston without any interruptions in the action.
            Death of a Salesman premiered on Broadway in 1949, Lee J. Coob as Willy Loman and directed by Elia Kazan ( who would later inform on Arthur Miller infront of the Un. America Activities Committee) . The play was a resounding success, winning the Pulitzer Prize, the New York Drama Critics Circle Award, as well as the Tony Award for Best Play. Much of this success is atributed to Miller''s facility in portraying the uneversal hops and fears of middle- class America. Through his main character , Willy, Miller examine the myth of the American Dream and the shollow promise of the happiness through material wealth. The Newyorker called the play a mixture of " compassion, imagination, and hard technical competence not often found in our theater"

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