Death of a Salesman.

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  Tom Waits, "Yesterday Is Here"

  If you want money in your pocket
  And a top hat on your head
  A hot meal on your table
  And a blanket on your bed

  Well today is grey skies
  Tomorrow is tears
  You'll have to wait til yesterday is here

  Well I'm going to New York City
  And I'm leaving on a train
  And if you want to stay behind
  And ... (continue)

  If you want money in your pocket
  And a top hat on your head
  A hot meal on your table
  And a blanket on your bed

  Well today is grey skies
  Tomorrow is tears
  You'll have to wait til yesterday is here

  Well I'm going to New York City
  And I'm leaving on a train
  And if you want to stay behind
  And wait til I come back again

  Well today is grey skies
  Tomorrow is tears
  You'll have to wait til yesterday is here

  If you want to go where the rainbows end
  You'll have to say goodbye
  All our dreams come true baby up ahead
  And it's out where your memories lie

  Well the road's out before me
  And the moon is shining bright
  What I want you to remember
  As I disappear tonight

  Today is grey skies
  Tomorrow's tears
  You'll have to wait til yesterday is here
  You'll have to wait til yesterday is here

  You'll have to wait
  Til yesterday is here.

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  míol mór said on Nov 2, 2011 about the Paperback edition | 4 feedbacks

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  A very interesting and thought-provoking play consisting of two acts and a requiem which is still contemporary.

  Willy, the protagonist, is the prototype of the ordinary man that we see everyday in our society, even though it has been six decades since the play was written. He was born in the U ... (continue)

  A very interesting and thought-provoking play consisting of two acts and a requiem which is still contemporary.

  Willy, the protagonist, is the prototype of the ordinary man that we see everyday in our society, even though it has been six decades since the play was written. He was born in the USA, so he was educated in a capitalist society which sees work and money as the top values to reach happiness.

  We could say that Willy is both a victim and victimizer of the American Way of life, given that he had the essence of an unassuming man but he was consumed by the common attitudes of his surroundings: envy and pride in a world of appearances, alienation and thirst of power.

  He has not fully adapted himself to the 20th century American hero, who has changed from being an intrepid explorer to a capitalist and consumer beast. He is already an old man who still lives in the roaring twenties, so he transfers his desire to achieve the American Dream to his sons and becoming the father he did not have to advise him when he was young.

  He has focused so much on paying the bills that he forgot to live, he forgot that money and gadgets do not bring happiness, they have, on the contrary, ruined his life.

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  1984 said on Oct 4, 2009 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

• Critical introduction/comment(s):

  [This play] was written in six weeks in the spring of 1948, but it had been brewing in [the author]'s mind for ten years. Its 742 performances put it among the fifty longest recorded Broadway runs...Miller himself defined his aim in the play as being 'to set forth what happens when a man does not ha ... (continue)

  [This play] was written in six weeks in the spring of 1948, but it had been brewing in [the author]'s mind for ten years. Its 742 performances put it among the fifty longest recorded Broadway runs...Miller himself defined his aim in the play as being 'to set forth what happens when a man does not have a grip on the forces of life'.

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  Your Sources said on Mar 3, 2011 about the School & Library Binding edition | Add your feedback

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  The complex visuals make it difficult to read, especially because the stage notes are somewhat vague.

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  pktechgirl said on Oct 30, 2008 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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  The classmates in my english class ruined this book for me. I probably would have liked it more if they didn't exist.

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  Bostonrox2 said on Jun 25, 2007 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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  The broken American Dream is much more tempting than the Dream itself

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  fruit said on Apr 14, 2007 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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• English Books
• Others 117 Pages
• ISBN-10: 3425041347
• ISBN-13: 9783425041346
• Publisher: Diesterweg Moritz
• Pub date: Jan 01, 1986
• Also available as: Paperback, Hardcover, Audio Cassette, Library Binding, School & Library Binding and Unbound
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