DEATH OF A SALESMAN

ARTHUR MILLER

• Born 10/17/1915 in Harlem NYC
• Died 2/10/2005 in Roxbury Connecticut of heart failure
• Went to the University of Michigan, Majored in Journalism
• Know for his plays

CHARCTERS

• Willy Loman Linda Loman Biff Loman Happy Loman Ben Loman
• Bernard Charley The Woman Howard

SETTING

• Late 1940s
• Willy Loman's house
• New York City and Barnaby River
• Boston

PLOT

• An old man is going senile. When the present disappoints him,
• he hallucinates and goes back into the past, until he runs out of past to go back to,
• and then he kills himself.

AWARDS

• Tony Award for Best Play
• Pulitzer Prize for Drama
• Tony Award Best Director
• Tony Award Author

PERFORMED TODAY

• Its performed still in NYC
• Especially broadway