Death of a Salesman

noun

1. a play (1949) by Arthur Miller.

Death of a Salesman

1. (1949) A Pulitzer Prize –winning play by the American writer Arthur Miller. Willy Loman, a salesman who finds himself regarded as useless in his occupation because of his age, kills himself. A speech made by a friend of Willy's after his suicide is well known and ends with the lines: “Nobody dast blame this man. A salesman is got to dream, boy. It comes with the territory.”

Example Sentences

In the end, more than anything else, “The Apprentice” is simply one of the most effective studies of the American Dream since Arthur Miller’s “Death of a Salesman.”

From Salon

Like Willy Loman in Death of a Salesman, he thinks it’s all about the friendships.

From Slate

Since thens she has regularly performed on and off Broadway, including opposite Philip Seymour Hoffman in Mike Nichols’ incarnation of “Death of a Salesman.”

From Seattle Times

In 1979, she won an Olivier Award for actress of the year in a supporting role in the stage show Death of A Salesman for the National Theatre.

From BBC

It’s something of a profanity-laden counterpart to “Death of a Salesman,” its scorched-earth monologues and inventive insults providing the flashy surface to a melancholy indictment of empty capitalism and toxic masculinity.

From New York Times