Arthur Miller’s play Death of a Salesman is the tragic tale of the play’s protagonist, Willy Loman. Loman is a pathetic shell of a man who displays himself to be more than he is by lying. This need to lie about many of the facts of his life is attributed to his lack of self confidence, and general disappointment with his life, and his unfulfilled dreams. Loman often contemplates suicide, dreaming about how …showed first 75 words of 2022 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2022 total…from Contemporary Literary Criticism, 1976, Gale Research Company, Detroit. pp. 327-337. 2) Hayman, Ronald. “Arthur Miller: Between Sartre & Society,” in Encounter.1971 by Encounter Ltd, pp. 73-9. ibid. 3) Heyen, William, “Arthur Miller's 'Death of a Salesman' and the American Dream,” in Amerikanisches Drama Und Theater im 20. Jahrhundert: American Drama and Theater in the 20th Century, edited by Alfred Weber and Siegfried Neuweiler, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1975, pp.190-201. ibid. 4) Miller, Arthur. Death of a Salesman. New York: The Viking Press, 1949.