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Arthur Miller
Major works:
All My Sons • Death of a Salesman • The Crucible • A View from the Bridge
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Read a passage from Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
Death of a Salesman
Arthur MillerCHARLEY, stopping Happy’s movement and reply. To Biff: Nobody dast blame this man. You don’t understand: Willy was a salesman. And for a salesman, there is no rock bottom to the life. He don’t put a bolt to a nut, he don’t tell you the law or give you medicine. He’s a man way out there in the blue, riding on a smile and shoeshine. And when they start not smiling back—that’s an earthquake. And then you get yourself a couple of spots on your hat, and you’re finished. Nobody dast blame this man. A salesman is got to dream, boy. It comes with the territory.
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