Death of a Salesman

American  

noun

1. a play (1949) by Arthur Miller.

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Death of a Salesman Cultural  

1. (1949) A Pulitzer Prize –winning play by the American writer Arthur Miller. Willy Loman, a salesman who finds himself regarded as useless in his occupation because of his age, kills himself. A speech made by a friend of Willy's after his suicide is well known and ends with the lines: “Nobody dast blame this man. A salesman is got to dream, boy. It comes with the territory.”

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Example Sentences

Theater veteran Elizabeth Franz, who won a Tony Award for her role in ‘Death of a Salesman’ and appeared in a memorable episode of ‘Gilmore Girls,’ has died.

From Los Angeles Times

Theater veteran Elizabeth Franz, who won a Tony Award for her bold reinvention as the wife of the everyman title character in the 1999 Broadway revival of Arthur Miller’s “Death of a Salesman,” has died.

From Los Angeles Times

The Ohio-born actor’s take on Linda Loman, the wife of Brian Dennehy’s Willy Loman, in the 50th anniversary production of “Death of a Salesman,” was a departure from the character’s usual defeated energy that took even playwright Miller by surprise: “She has discovered in the role the basic underlying powerful protectiveness, which comes out as fury, and that in the past, in every performance I know of, was simply washed out,” Miller said in a 1999 interview with the New York Times.

From Los Angeles Times

This fall begins Ms. Rubasingham’s first season, which features 16 productions including such savory enticements as Paul Mescal performing in two plays in repertory, including “Death of a Salesman.”

From The Wall Street Journal

Nelson recalls the ambitious but morally compromised, or self-deluded, fathers in “Death of a Salesman” and “All My Sons,” wanting the best for themselves and their children but failing to see how deeply damaging their behavior has been.

From The Wall Street Journal