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...Miller's "Death of a Salesman" is an intensely pessimistic work. Of course the most recent plays of Tennessee Williams and Eugene O'Neill also deal with human disillusionment. But first and last, Blanche DuBois of "Streetcar" is a woman--a fascinating, living one--while Miller has intended Willy Loman to represent more than just one man. Willy is more than a husband, a father, or a salesman who is failure. He is a man whom we see crushed to death by the world, and he is a symbol of all such men. That is the basic reason...
...Lunts, and "Bell, Book, and Candle." Apart from the D'Oyly Carte's revivals of G. and S., "The Barrier" is the only musical booked so far. It is based on Wright's "Native Son," and stars Lawrence Tibbett. "Death of a Salesman," with Thomas Mitchell playing Willy Loman, will arrive from Broadway in late November...
Whipped, bedraggled Willy Loman is well on his way, it appears, to becoming as much a British as an American celebrity. Theatergoing Londoners last week welcomed Arthur Miller's Pulitzer Prizewining Death of a Salesman with raves and flourishes...
...Willy Loman, who all his life has been a salesman-and never a very successful one-is faced with what he cannot face: defeat. He has learned the go-getter gospel by heart, fervently played the goodfellow game, planted his sons along the broad winning highway, locked himself-and then lost himself-inside the American dream. Whenever the truth has not been fancy enough, he has lied to other people; whenever it has hurt, he has lied to himself. Nor have his sons fared better-neither the boy who loved his father till he found him with a woman...
...Phillip Loman Harris, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York--Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts...