Death of a Salesman was written in 1949 at the dawn of a new era spawned by the ending of World War II in 1945. ... Willy Loman is a 60 year traveling salesman who was employed by the Wagner firm for 34 years. ... Fortunately, Charley understood the value of a man's life and offered a bit of reality to the debilitating mind of Willy, who believed a man was "worth more dead than alive". ... The failing salesman's misguided beliefs tragically continued to imprison him. ... Willy desperately struggled for answers to his failures and inability to achieve success causing him to re...

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