Willy is frequently troubled by feelings of confusion and inadequacy. The seeds that Willy insists on buying and planting are an important symbol in the play. Willy’s obsession with distant lands further proves that he might prefer a very different livelihood than the one he has. Furthermore, Biff, Happy, and Ben repeatedly suggest that the Lomans are better suited to physical, hands-on kinds of work, an assertion supported by their failure as salesmen. While Willy insists New York is a land of opportunity and abundant success, his idolization of his brother Ben’s adventures and forays into faraway lands shows that he is really not so convinced. If the Lomans’ home symbolizes restriction, both physical and mental, distant locations symbolize escape, freedom, and the possibility of something better. This narrow, and increasingly narrowing setting is contrasted with the vastness of the American West, Alaska, and Africa. Miller continued to write until his death in 2005.Death of a Salesman takes place primarily within the confined landscape of the Lomans’ home. His third wife was the photographer Inge Morath.
In 1956 he married the film actress Marilyn Monroe. Miller testified before this committee, but refused to implicate any of his friends as Communists, which resulted in his blacklisting. In 1952, Miller wrote The Crucible, a play about the 1692 Salem witch trials that functioned as an allegory for the purges among entertainers and media figures by the House Un-American Activities Committee. He wrote Death of a Salesman in 1948, which won a Tony Award as well as the Pulitzer Prize, and made him a star. His first play, The Man Who Had All the Luck opened in 1944, but Miller had his first real success with All My Sons (1947). He married his college sweetheart, Mary Slattery, in 1940, with whom he had two children. After college, he worked for the government's Federal Theater Project, which was soon closed for fear of possible Communist infiltration. There, he received awards for his playwriting. Miller was unintellectual as a boy, but decided to become a writer and attended the University of Michigan to study journalism.
In the stock crash of 1929, his father's clothing business failed and the family moved to more affordable housing in Brooklyn. Arthur Miller was born into a middle-class Jewish family in Manhattan.
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