what is "The Death of a Salesman" about?

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It's about a family of bunnies who are so happy living in a little field. Then, an Evil Salesman keeps ringing their door and calling them at all hours. The bunnies ambush the salesman and devour him, leaving no evidence. The End.

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Wow. It's been a long time, but the play was about a crusty old salesman, who really wasn't any good, and he was wounded by the fact that he had to put that perception out there. He struggled mightily for relevance. He struggled to count. But in the end, he was pathetic. It is not really a tragedy, in the Shakespearean sense, but it approaches that. The pathos of his woeful inadequacy make him NOT a tragic figure, but a pathetic figure. I think there is something of him in all of us. "Faking it," screaming out at the world, "I count for something," when really we don't. The movie "The Producers" has a similar pathetic character in the lead role. Check it out by searching on Yahoo or Google... there's probably something on YouTube, too.

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