這部榮獲普立茲獎的悲劇講述了一位推銷員遲遲未能實現的美國夢。
自1949年首演以來，《推銷員之死》就被公認為美國戲劇的里程碑。透過塑造威利·洛曼這個靠微笑和擦鞋為生、年邁潦倒的推銷員這一角色，阿瑟·米勒重新定義了悲劇英雄，他夢想著既無比廣闊又危險地渺茫。他塑造的這個人物，其名字已成為一種宏偉壯麗的象徵——這部戲劇將幽默與痛苦、希望與失落的史詩般極致壓縮在美國客廳的四面牆壁之間。
The Pulitzer Prize-winning tragedy of a salesman’s deferred American dream
Ever since it was first performed in 1949, Death of a Salesman has been recognized as a milestone of the American theater. In the person of Willy Loman, the aging, failing salesman who makes his living riding on a smile and a shoeshine, Arthur Miller redefined the tragic hero as a man whose dreams are at once insupportably vast and dangerously insubstantial. He has given us a figure whose name has become a symbol for a kind of majestic grandiosity—and a play that compresses epic extremes of humor and anguish, promise and loss, between the four walls of an American living room.
