When I was a young kid, I always insisted like a spoiled brat on having one foot wedged securely in the closing door of Paradise!As the bright light of that paradisal dawn left my world on its ceaseless journey west, I refused to think Paradise was over for me - at least until the fat lady started to sing...But then, way back in 1960, I sat next to my Mom on a gleaming - though already antiquated - little post-war twin-prop ‘aeroplane’ to Toronto.The smiling and immaculately pageboy’d stewardess...

He leído como tres o cuatro veces esta obra -es muy fácil leer a Miller, lo cual tiene su mérito tratándose de teatro- y, aunque sigo disfrutándola, cada vez le encuentro más pegas. Miller es un moralista estricto y yo me voy haciendo cada vez más blandito, más comprensivo con nuestras miserias, más indulgente con los pecados que todos cometemos con tanta frecuencia, y más a disgusto con las reacciones extremas que en las obras de Miller tienen los “buenos” frente a los “malos”. Ahora que he leí...

A Classic with a big C. I can see why. It's not a happy story. A story about a troubled family. About getting older and getting cast aside after years of hard work, never having quite made it. About big expectations, never met. Infidelity. About the estranged relationship between father and son. A father, what's he doing? Panicking because he is loosing his job.... loosing his grip on things... on his boys.... hallucinating even?Present and past events or even imagined flow in and out of the sto...

احلامك بسيطة عملك بسيطدنياك بسيطة فهل هذا مبرر كافي لترحمك الحياة؟بالطبع لا..فلا مكان فيها للبسطاءويلي لومان ثرثار مهزار؛ لا يلفت الانظارعاش 35عام يطوف بسيارته المليئة بالعينات على الولايات يسحر الزبائنو عندما تعدى الستين. .و تراجعت قدراته الاقناعية. ◾اخذ تدريجيا درسه القاسي🔚 "ليس للمرء في هذه الحياة الا ما يستطيع ان يبيعه"و يفطن الى ان الحياة العصرية المتحضرة طحنته بين انيابهارائعة آرثر ميللر العبقريةمثلما يحلم كل ممثل بريطاني بأداء هاملت يحلم كل ممثل أمريكي باداء" لومان "الذي يجسد الضعف الفرد...

The action below takes place in the GR cafeteria..... GR: Do you mind, is this seat taken?STEVEN: No, please do! GR: How are you today?STEVEN: FineGR: Could you spare a few moments?STEVEN: SureGR: So, what did you think of Death of a Salesman? STEVEN: Great!, the venue may have been small, but that just made the whole experience more intimate. I parked myself in a seat somewhere near the back and in the middle, so had a good panoramic view of the stage, the performances from all the cast were go...

Recently Goodreads added a Rereading Feature so members can keep track of all the times they’ve read a book. I wonder how many times I’ve read Death of a Salesman. The first time I read it was in high school and I didn’t really like it. In later years I developed an appreciation for the play and assigned it to my college literature classes. I even got a VHS tape of the 1985 film with Dustin Hoffman and John Malkovich and watched it with my students. Now I find myself again teaching a literature ...

"Attention must be paid."The only time I saw "Death of a Salesman" professionally performed I was almost 19 and I wept for most of the second act. I have not read or seen it since, but recently returned to it. 16 years after my first encounter with this piece I still am moved by it, but for very different reasons. I guess that is what makes it a classic.The protagonist of the play, the iconic Willy Loman, is a frustrating, loser of a man who frankly has been a cruel fool his entire life. He is j...

A small man can be just as exhausted as a great man. There's something to be said for waiting until later in life to read certain books. The struggles of Willy Loman would have meant little to my younger, more impatient self. Now, the huge amount of time Loman spends dreaming of his halcyon days strikes a chord with me. Memory has a way of making everything seem bigger, brighter and better than it actually was. People have a tendency to dwell on the past when the present turns out to be not ...

ME: Good evening and welcome to part 3 of "Newt Gingrich meets Arthur Miller". As you may know, Mr Gingrich has recently been encouraging Americans to read Miller's works. Our third episode is devoted to Death of a Salesman, which--LAWYER: Hold it right there.ME: I'm sorry? Is there a problem?LAWYER: Oh, go on and pretend you don't know what this is about. The "salesman" you're referring to is my client, President Donald Trump. "Death" is too obvious to be worth commenting on. Like so many liber...

Hate! Hate! Oh, the hate! Arthur Miller does a beautiful job of conveying the emptiness and meaninglessness of his protagonist's life. It left me wanting to jump off a very tall building if only I could overcome the crushing ennui and the conviction that even ending ones life was too meaningless and futile to contemplate. Maybe that means Miller accomplished what he set out to do, but I don't have to like it.