death of a salesman

Death of a Salesman is a play by Arthur Miller. It takes place in New York. It is about a man named Willy Loman. He has been traveling salesman for the Wagner Company for 34 years. He has a wife named Linda, and two sons named Biff and Happy. Happy lives in New York, and works in a department store. After 14 years, Biff finally comes home, looking for a job in New York. Willy is so …showed first 75 words of 904 total…

…showed last 75 words of 904 total…it was difficult to figure out what time period it was in. At the end of the book, Willy kills himself, and no one but his family came to his funeral. All his dreams about being well-liked were phony, because the truth was that he wasn't very well-liked at all. It is a book about the "common man being defeated by a society which drains the common man of his energy, and then drops him".