Death of a Salesman is a play by Arthur Miller. It tells the story of Willy Loman, a traveling salesman, who is losing his job, has lost the love of his sons, and has discovered that he has never known his wife.
The play has been made into several movie and televison versions:
... existence to which
the vast mass of mankind, who can not be recluses,
are called.
The charge has even been made that
the piety commended by the "Imitation" is of ...