Death of a Salesman (Arthur Miller)
             One of the greatest representative of the american drama was a leading playwright, Arthur Miller. Although Miller's dramas take place in familial settings, he has made a reputation for dealing with contemporary political and moral issues. Miller divided „Death of a Salesman" into three sections: Act I, Act II, and a short Requiem.
             The author uses a big repertoire of methods. The important technics are: (1) the flashback method, which can express the play between present and past. Past has a determinal effect. It can also confront illusion and reality. (2) The Wall and Light technique has a big role in the change of time. (3) The spontaneous remembrance of Bergson is very momentous, because recollection pulls down the barriers of place and time. (4) The dialogues of Chekhov appears in the play. The characters talk around each other. (5) Spatial circumstances and plane of temporal circumstances: the objective time takes two days, the subjective time takes several years. The act takes place in the house of the Loman family, but through the reminiscence in a number of places, for example in Boston. According to Bécsy's distinction it is a drama with a centre as Miller built the play on one person.
             The situation: Willy Loman is an elderly salesman lost in false hopes and illusions. He unexpectedly returns from a business journey. Sitting beside the steering wheel, he day-dreams and the pictures of the past possesses him again and again. He enters the house, and says to his wife:-„all right. I came back." The conversation is empty, however, we get to know several information about the relationship of the characters. Willy&apos...