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      Death of  a Salesman is a play written by Arthur Miller. The setting is in New York during the early 1940s. Miller's audience was the people watching the play, as well as people reading the play in present day. Miller's purpose for writing was to entertain. He wanted to give the audience a glimpse of what life was like for a man who was in a desperate search of the American Dream. This play shows how the desperate wanting of something can destroy a family, and ultimately a person's life.
      Death of a Salesman is about a salesman named Willy Loman who has been trying to achieve the American Dream practically his whole life. He has made it his life's work to become successful at his job, and has tried to instill his same beliefs in his sons Biff and Happy. However, along the way, he has lost sight of the realistic aspects of his goals, and become deluded and depressed because of his failures. Willy isolated both his sons, as well as his wife, Linda, keeping them in the dark both directly and indirectly. In the end, Willy's failures and disappointments in life became too much for him to cope with, so he turned to suicide as his only way out.