For him, anything is possible, if you work hard enough - he is almost childlike in his wishfulness, confident that one day, his 'lucky break' will come. Willy Loman is a hardworking shoe salesman, in his late sixties, living in Boston during the 1940s and a firm believer in the American Dream.
I have to say despite that reservation, the poignancy of the story still remains. He did tell me that this play had been written in happier times and perhaps not for the recession we seem to be mired in these days. I hadn't read many plays before this one – actually only a couple of scripts really, for school drama - so my father gave me this one I didn't know what to expect.
