The influence of this drama, first performed in 1949, continues to grow in World Theatre. Perhaps the most significant comment on this play is not its literary achievement, as such, but is, rather, the impact which it has had on spectators, both in America and abroad. The chief value of this drama is its attempt to reveal those ultimate meanings which are resident in modern experience. Analysis of Arthur Miller’s Death of a SalesmanĪrthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman is, perhaps, to this time, the most mature example of a myth of Contemporary life.
