March 8, 2011 Journal #4  What is your definition of a salesman? How is a salesman different from someone in another occupation? What attitudes do you.

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March 8, 2011 Journal #4  What is your definition of a salesman? How is a salesman different from someone in another occupation? What attitudes do you think a salesman should have in order to be successful? What attitudes would hinder him?

Background on Arthur Miller (copy in your notes)  1915 (in New York City)  Wrote 17 plays  Family was intensely impacted by the Depression  Graduated from University of Michigan in 1938 with English degree  Appeared before the House Un-American Activities Committee in  Married Marilyn Monroe in 1956, divorced in  Produced Death of a Salesman – won Pulitzer Prize  The Crucible – 1953  His later works never surpassed his earlier success.

Death of a Salesman Tidbits of background information  Considered one of the best dramas EVER written!!! Won Pulitzer Prize, Critics Circle and many other prestigious awards.  63 year old Willy Loman is based on Arthur Miller’s Uncle Manny (pun intended)  Willy Loman is a traveling salesman who has worked for the Wagner Company for thirty-four years, and believes himself to be vital to his company.  Willy has 2 sons (Biff & Happy), who come home for a visit.  The play takes the audience into the mind of Willy Loman and his illusory world of (unfulfilled) dreams.  Unconventional time sequence – voice of past becomes as loud as the present  theme of illusion vs. reality