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Drama
Death of a Salesman -- comparison between the play and a 1985 TV rendering of the play, starring Dustin Hoffman
The tragedy of Willie Loman in the play by Arthur Miller seems like a man who wants to be great, yet falls to a tragic and small end. However, the televised version of the play makes Willie seem like a little or 'low' man throughout. Thus, although the Arthur Miller 1950's play "The Death of a Salesman" is often defined as a modern-day tragedy, whereby the central father and patriarch of the Loman family, Willie, is a kind of modern-day tragic hero who sacrifices his life to the folly living according to the rules of cutthroat, American capitalist 'salesman' society, in the television version Willie Loman ultimately strikes viewer of the Arthur Miller debacle as merely a man of small ambitions -- to make money, to be liked, and to make a better life for his sons -- ambitions he fails to accomplish in a meaningful fashion.
This sense of smallness of the man, and the smallness of his life and ambitions is intensified in the 1985 made-for-television film version...
The house Hoffman's Loman has worked so hard to build is a tiny, tenement-style structure, rather than something remotely impressive, worthy of sacrificing many hours selling upon the road. Flapping, drying laundry hangs in the breeze as Willie and Biff have their final confrontation, as Biff states that he is a failure and Willie expresses surprise and disbelief that his son likes him as a man, despite his failings as a parent. When Linda, after Willie's death, marvels that now the family owns the home and is free and clear, the house seems hardly worth anything, much less Willie's implied suicide and hard-won earnings as a salesman, a salesman who ends his days selling on commission rather than even in a semi-honored fashion by the company he worked for during his professional existence.
Although this sense of smallness is also conveyed to some extent throughout the play, then intensified in…
Works Cited
"Death of a Salesman." Starring Dustin Hoffman. Made for television in 1985.
Miller, Arthur. "Death of a Salesman." Course textbook, p.1824
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