Arthur Miller: Death of a Salesman

The scene of the story is the United States in the 1950-s and 1960-s and the main character is the Loman family which consists of four members, the parents Linda and Willy Loman and their sons Biff and Happy Loman. The father is Willy Loman a sixty year old salesman, so he is an average Ameri-can mundane citizen. He wants to be successful and he wants to be "great". He is susceptible to form an …

…a father, as husband and as a friend) in the sucess-driven society of America Willy Loman is tired and defeat by his lack of success and difficult family life. All these factors lead to his suicide, consequently he sold himself and he killed himself. It is a fatal and irre-versible act, but in any case this is the solution of the drama. Miller shows that an average citizen can become a subject for a tragedy.