Willy Loman
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Willy Loman
Arthur Miller, considered as the dominant American playwright (Miller 1209), was born in 1915 in New York. After graduating from University of Michigan, Arthur Miller wrote with the Federal Theater Project (part of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal) (1209). Post WWII, Miller earned "fame as a dramatist with All My Sons (1947), Death of a Salesman (1949), and An Enemy of the People (1951)" (1209). Death of a Salesman opened on Broadway on February 10, 1949 (1209). In this play, "Miller redefines the nature tragedy in our modern period of democracy and belief on the significance of common people" (1210). It is "about dreams, illusions, and self-deception." (1211). Willy Loman is a man that lives in the past and the present. He embellishes his life around his son Biff and the ideal that he is a well respected salesman for a company he has been a part of for thirty six years...