Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby is the play’s only rival in American literature in expressing the tragic side of the American myth of success and the ill-fated American dreamers. Along with Eugene O’Neill’s Long Day’s Journey into Night, Miller’s masterpiece forms the defining myth of the American family and the American dream. It can be argued that the Great American Novel-that always elusive imaginative summation of the American experience-became the Great American Drama in Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman. Esther Merle Jackson, “ Death of a Salesman: Tragic Myth in the Modern Theatre” For it articulates, in language which can be appreciated by popular audiences, certain new dimensions of the human dilemma. The influence of this drama, first performed in 1949, continues to grow in World Theatre. Perhaps the most significant comment on this play is not its literary achievement, as such, but is, rather, the impact which it has had on spectators, both in America and abroad.
The chief value of this drama is its attempt to reveal those ultimate meanings which are resident in modern experience. In the darkness of night, Willy wonders aloud what he ever told Biff that made him steal things.Analysis of Arthur Miller’s Death of a SalesmanĪrthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman is, perhaps, to this time, the most mature example of a myth of Contemporary life. As Linda goes into the living room almost in tears, Willy is alone again in the kitchen and the apartment buildings are visible behind the house. As Linda agrees that Biff needs to shape up, Willy explodes at her and says that Biff is doing nothing wrong, that he's just spirited and has personality, unlike Bernard.
Bernard leaves the stage, but warns on his way out that Biff will flunk math if he doesn't study. Willy, overwhelmed by Linda and Bernard as well as the sound of the woman's laughter, yells at them to shut up. Bernard says that Biff is driving the car without a license. Linda says that Biff needs to return the football to the locker room and that he is so rough with the girls that all the mothers are afraid of him. Willy, still angry, threatens to whip Bernard. Willy moves to the forestage in agitation and tells Bernard to give Biff the answers, but Bernard refuses because it is a state exam and he doesn't want to get in trouble. Then Bernard runs onto the stage looking for Biff, so that they can study for the state exam. His guilt at giving the secretary silk stockings while his wife had to mend her own makes him angry. As the light brightens over the kitchen table, Willy moves to the kitchen and notices Linda darning her silk stockings.
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