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Death of a Salesman, a Film Review
Summary: Reviews the film version of the Arthur Miller play, Death of a Salesman. Provides a plot synopsis. Discusses the diferences between the original text and the film.
Death of a Salesman is probably one of Arthur Miller's greatest achievements. This play describes the sixty-three-year-old protagonist Willy Loman, a rounded and psychologically motivated individual. Willy is also a familiar American Philistine and even a universal type. He embodies the stupidity, immorality, self-delusion, and failure of middle-class values Miller portrays as being sterile and vicious. At the same time Willy's love of his delinquent sons, however harmful and wrongly expressed has made him "a King Lear in mufti." The transparent skeletal settings may be altered instantaneously; they modify naturalism into an expressionistic and dreamlike dramatization of Willy's free association, shifting between and confusing the present, the past, and the hallucinatory. These converge on Willy's tortured consciousness during the last two days of his life.
The disillusionment, ending in suicide of Willy, a tragic figure who has lost the knack of selling himself and the product he represents...
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