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DEATH OF A SALESMAN by Arthur Miller...
...there in the blue, riding on a smile and a shoeshine . . . A salesman is got to dream, boy. It comes with the territory...
...have-defining success, failure, our relationships with our children, even our notions of what constitutes a worthwhile job in new ways. That is, in part, because more than a generation ago Arthur Miller invented an American dreamer named Willy Loman, put him in a play called Death of a Salesman, and invited us to watch him and his false, almost comic, near-to-tragic dream unravel...
Such was the cautionary power of this work that one's largest fear, approaching the new, palpitatingly anticipated Broadway production of Salesman, starring Dustin Hoffman in a role he admitted wanting to play since he began acting, only a decade after Miller finished writing it, was that we might have learned too well the lessons Willy taught. Perhaps familiarity might have rendered him irrelevant, a figure of nostalgic curiosity, conceivably, but of vastly diminished power to engage the emotions...
...will have achieved in death what he never could in life-a legacy for his family and, better still, that edge on the system for which he had always angled. When Hoffman makes his final exit, he actually does a little shimmy and shake, so eager is his salesman for this last but most promising road trip...