Arthur Miller’s DEATH OF A SALESMAN Plot Summary In the beginning of the play, the main character, Willy Lowman, has just returned home after finding himself unable to concentrate on driving. His wife, Linda, suggests that he ask for a job in New York so that he won’t have to drive so much. Willy insists, however, that it is vital to his company that he work in New England. Willy asks Linda about …showed first 75 words of 1199 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1199 total…Death of a Salesman is a freeze frame of the changing society in the 50’s and into the 60’s. Sons were rebelling against the molds their fathers set for them. Men who lived by the old codes and social mores were growing disillusioned and derelict. And the society of the whole nation was slowly getting turned inside out, all as the traditions of the old school were grudgingly usurped by the traditions of the new.