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Of his former boss' son-the bills, the car, the tinkering around the house.

For he conveys this elusive tragedy in terms of simple things-the loyalty and understanding of his wife, the careless selfishness of his two sons, the sympathetic devotion of a neighbor, the coldness But the unsubstantial things have become decisive the spring has gone from his step, the smile from his face and the heartiness from his personality. In his early sixties he knows his business as well as he ever did. When he was young, he lookedĭashing he enjoyed the comradeship of other people-the humor, the kidding, the business. But suddenly the unsubstantial aspects of it overwhelm him completely. There has always been something unsubstantial about his work. It is the story of an aging salesman who has reached the end of his usefulness on the road. Miller has drawn it out of so many intangible sources. For "Death of a Salesman" has the flow and spontaneity ofĪ suburban epic that may not be intended as poetry but becomes poetry in spite of itself because Mr.

In comparison with the new drama, that seems like a contrived play now. Miller's "All My Sons" looked like the work of an honest and able playwright. Cobb gives a heroic performance, and every member of the cast plays like a person inspired. Under Elia Kazan's masterly direction, Lee J. Miller has looked with compassion into the hearts of some ordinary Americans and quietly transferred their hopeĪnd anguish to the theatre. It is so simple in style and so inevitable in theme that is scarcely seems like a thing that has been written and acted. From every point of view "Death of a Salesman," which was acted at the Morosco last evening, is rich and memorable drama. At the Theatre By BROOKS ATKINSON rthur Miller has written a superb drama.