![]() ![]() Happy, Willy’s other son, is happy being a mediocre salesman. He thinks that Biff is not doing enough to climb up the ladder of the American dream. Willy Loman, a marginally successful salesman is concerned about what his son Biff will make of himself. In fact, the story itself is quite mundane, far from spectacular. What is it about this play that provokes such a strong reaction from people? After all, the play doesn’t belong to the tragedy genre. ![]() ![]() In the later showings of the play, decades later, people would have the same reaction. This phenomenon wasn’t an isolated incident. On the first enactment of the play Death of Salesman by Arthur Miller, people at the theatre allegedly started crying and they simply couldn’t stop. Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller Arthur Miller by Eric Koch, 28 September 1966, via Wikimedia Commons ![]()
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