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Monday, June 8, 2015

Death of a Salesman, 1949

de bene esse: literally, of well-being, morally acceptable but subject to future validation or exception

In Arthur Miller’s Tony-winning play Death of a Salesman in 1949, a play about a failed salesman, Willy Loman, was met with rave reviews and the theater-going public flocked to see it. Here ...
<b>Caption from LIFE.</b> Losing his mind as result of worry, the salesman, Willy Loman (Lee J. Cobb), babbles at imaginary characters in a restaurant. This two sons attempt to restrain him while a couple of floozies the boys have picked up look on in cold puzzlement.
<b>Caption from LIFE.</b> Hope of Willy's life was his two sons. Here, in a flash back, he remembers playing with Hap (Cameron Mitchell), doing leg exercises, and Biff (Arthur Kennedy), who is the big high-school football hero.
<b>Caption from LIFE.</b> Willy's faithful wife explains her husband to his two neglectful sons.
<b>Caption from LIFE.</b> Despair engulfs Willy as he relives the awful moment when his son Biff caught him in a Boston hotel with a woman. Willy tries to confront Biff, who feels broken and betrayed by father's dishonesty.
W. Eugene Smith—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images
Caption from LIFE. Losing his mind as result of worry, the salesman, Willy Loman (Lee J. Cobb), babbles at imaginary characters in a restaurant. This two sons attempt to restrain him while a couple of floozies the boys have picked up look on in cold puzzlement.
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