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    This document provides an outline about Arthur Miller's play "Death of a Salesman". It discusses the literary movement of modernism and postmodernism. It provides biographical details about Arthur Miller, noting he was a American playwright and screenwriter born in New York in 1915. The document then summarizes Miller's famous play "Death of a Salesman", describing its use of stream-of-consciousness technique, expressionism, symbolism, and extensive flashbacks to explore themes of disillusionment with the American Dream.

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    This document provides an outline about Arthur Miller's play "Death of a Salesman". It discusses the literary movement of modernism and postmodernism. It provides biographical details about Arthur Miller, noting he was a American playwright and screenwriter born in New York in 1915. The document then summarizes Miller's famous play "Death of a Salesman", describing its use of stream-of-consciousness technique, expressionism, symbolism, and extensive flashbacks to explore themes of disillusionment with the American Dream.

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    This document provides an outline about Arthur Miller's play "Death of a Salesman". It discusses the literary movement of modernism and postmodernism. It provides biographical details about Arthur Miller, noting he was a American playwright and screenwriter born in New York in 1915. The document then summarizes Miller's famous play "Death of a Salesman", describing its use of stream-of-consciousness technique, expressionism, symbolism, and extensive flashbacks to explore themes of disillusionment with the American Dream.

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    Death of a Salesman

    Arthur Miller
    by Jairo Velandia
    "Funny, y’know? After all the highways, and the trains, and

    the appointments, and the years, you end up worth more

    dead than alive" p. 1540

    Willy Loman
    Outline

    Literary movement
    Author
    Works
    Death of a Salesman
    Postmodern
    Literary Movement

    Modern Literature
    Stream of consciousness
    American Dream
    Postmodern Literature
    Realism and its Discontents
    Arthur Asher Miller
    (1915-2005)
    New York
    father - businessman
    The Brothers Kamarazov
    novelist
    short story writer
    screenwriter
    playwright
    essayist
    Works
    Realism
    moral, political issues
    ordinary people under pressure
    symbolism, expressionism
    The Man Who Had All the Luck (1944)
    All My Sons (1947)
    Death of a Salesman (1949)
    The Crucible (1953).
    Death of a Salesman
    (1949)
    Characteristics
    stream-of-consciousness
    technique
    expressionism
    symbolism
    extensive flashbacks
    Themes
    disillusionment
    national dream

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