Death of a Salesman Death of a Salesman Death of a Salesman is a 1949 play written by American playwright Arthur Miller. It won the 1949 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and Tony Award for Best Play. The play premiered on Broadway in February 1949, running for 742 performances, and has been revived on Broadway four times, winning three Tony Awards for Best Revival. It is widely considered to be one of the greatest plays of the 20th century. Willy Loman returns home exhausted after a business trip he has cancelled. Worried over Willy's state of mind and recent car accident, his wife Linda suggests
Death of a Salesman (1951 film) was a more typical American salesman, and was an attempt to defuse possible accusations that "Death of a Salesman" was an anti-American film. Eventually, Columbia agreed to remove the 10-minute short from the film's theatrical run. Miller saw "Career of a Salesman" as an attack upon his work, proclaiming "Why the hell did you make the picture if you're so ashamed of it? Why should anybody not get up and walk out of the theatre if "Death of a Salesman" is so outmoded and pointless?" He argued against the portrayal of the salesman profession as "a wonderful profession, that people