Death Of A Salesman Research Paper

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The Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller is a story about a salesman, Willy Loman, dealing with immense stress due to his job and his sons’ futures. As he starts to experience hallucinations due to the stress, but he soons to become hopeful of his family’s future. But once he attempts to get a promotion and gets denied, he gets fired from his job and ends up committing suicide, leaving his wife and his two sons to fend for themselves, but not before paying off his house payments. Though this story takes place during the late 1940s, I believe that this story is not only inspired by a failing salesman from the Great Depression, but also inspired by Miller’s own uncle. During the late 1920s and throughout the 1930s, there was a time in America