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[This book] has been recognized as a milestone of the American theater. In the person of Willy Loman, the aging, failing salesman who makes his living riding on a smile and shoeshine, [the author] redefined the tragic hero as a man whose dreams are at once insupportably vast and dangerously insubstantial. He has given us a figure whose name has become a symbol for a kind of majestic grandiosity - and a play that compresses epic extremes of humor and...
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Arthur Miller and the loss of conscience / William B. Dillingham -- Arthur Miller : man and his image / Gerald Weales -- [Section 6.] Analogues -- The know-it-all salesman / Walter D. Moody -- Death of a traveling salesman / Eudora Welty -- The last of my solid gold watch / Tennessee Williams -- The eighty-yard run / Irwin Shaw.