Arthur Miller 
Death of a Salesman 
Certain Private Conversations in Two Acts and a Requiem

In the spring of 1948 Arthur Miller retreated to a log cabin in Connecticut with the first two lines of a new play already fixed in his mind. He emerged six weeks later with the final script of
Death of a Salesman — a painful examination of American life and consumerism. Opening on Broadway the following year, Miller»s extraordinary masterpiece changed the course of modern theatre. In creating Willy Loman, his destructively insecure anti-hero, Miller himself defined his aim as being »to set forth what happens when a man does not have a grip on the forces of life.»