Death of a Salesman — Arthur Miller

The name of Willy Loman, the central character, has become as familiar as Babbitt. The story of Willy's life is the poignant, sometimes humorous, ultimately tragic story of a man steeped in the go-getter gospel who never got beyond his own day-dream world. The drama of his downhill struggle is the heart-wrenching drama of wishful dreamers everywhere. The play reads as absorbingly as it performs, and has already taken a permanent place in our written literature.