

Willy complains that Biff, his older son who has come back home to visit, has yet to make something of himself. Willy says that he will talk to Howard the next day. His wife, Linda, tries to persuade him to ask his boss, Howard Wagner, to let him work in New York so that he won't have to travel. It was the recipient of the 1949 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and Tony Award for Best Play.Īs a flute melody plays, Willy Loman returns to his home in Brooklyn one night, exhausted from a failed sales trip. Death of a Salesman is a 1949 play written by American playwright Arthur Miller.
