Death of a Salesman

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Traveling salesman Willy Loman returns exhausted to his Brooklyn home after another failed business trip. His wife Linda sees his worsening confusion and despair, while Willy fixates on their son Biff, once a promising athlete and now an adult drifting through temporary jobs. Biff and his brother Happy try to revive Willy’s hopes with plans for a business proposal, just as Willy asks his employer for local work and is fired instead. The two-act tragedy moves fluidly among present arguments, memories, and dreams, revealing how Willy’s idea of success has distorted his understanding of work, love, and truth. The Loman family’s mounting confrontation turns the American Dream into an intimate crisis of identity, expectation, and self-deception.

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