Death+of+a+Salesman

**Published:** 1950
**Key Characters: Willy Loman, Linda Loman, Biff Loman, Happy Loman**

===**Setting etc:** The play is set in Brooklyn during the 1950's although much of the action takes place during the protagonist Willy's flashbacks to the mid 1930's. ===

===Key Literary Elements: Flashbacks, Symbols (stockings, seeds) Internal conflict (Willy struggles to come to grips with his past). ===

===**Themes**: The impossibility of the American Dream, following your heart, the importance of communication, living in denial, popularity vs. success, the nature of a dysfunctional family. ===

=**//Death of a Salesman Sparknotes//** = = = = = =Life of a Salesman New York Times Resources =