Author(s)

Mei Sun

Department of Chinese Literature, National Central University, Taoyuan City.

Death of a Salesman premiered in 1949, deeply revealing an intuitive understanding of the society at that time. Since then, the tragic masterpiece has been studied hundreds of times in a variety of theories. In the third decade of the twenty-first century, more and more people are pursuing wealth and success, emphasizing on the materialistic in life. It is worth reading Death of a Salesman again. This paper relies on the original playscript rather than others’ theories, and perceives the fusion of the Marxism’s influence on the play through a close reading of the text.

Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman, American Dream, Marxism’s Influence

Sun, M. (2022) The Collapse of a Low Man’s Great Dream: Reading the Fusion of Traditional Marxism in Death of a Salesman. Advances in Literary Study, 10, 189-196. doi: 10.4236/als.2022.102015.