Death of a Salesman
推销员之死

Death of a Salesman is a 1949 play written by American playwright Arthur Miller. It was the recipient of the 1949 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and Tony Award for Best Play. The play premiered on Broadway in February 1949, running for 742 performances. The play is a montage of memories, dreams, confrontations, and arguments, all of which make up the last twenty-four hours of Willy Loman's life. The play concludes with Willy's suicide and subsequent funeral. Miller uses the Loman family — Willy, Linda, Biff, and Happy — to construct a self-perpetuating cycle of denial, contradiction, and order versus disorder.
《推销员之死》是美国剧作家阿瑟·米勒创作于1949年的戏剧，摘得当年的普利策戏剧奖和托尼奖最佳话剧奖。该剧1949年2月于百老汇首演，连演742场。整出剧围绕主人公威利·洛曼人生最后的24小时展开，充满着蒙太奇手法的回忆、梦境、冲突和争执，最后以威利的自杀和葬礼结束。米勒笔下的洛曼一家——威利、琳达、比夫和哈皮等人构建了一个否定与矛盾交织、有序与无序对立的世界。

Willy Loman is an insecure, self-deluded traveling salesman. Willy believes wholeheartedly in the American Dream of easy success and wealth, but he never achieves it. Nor do his sons fulfill his hope that they will succeed where he has failed. When Willy's illusions begin to fail under the pressing realities of his life, his mental health begins to unravel.
威利·洛曼是个常年奔波在路上的推销员，内心没有安全感，常常自我欺骗。他深信成功与财富唾手可得，但是毕生都未实现这一美国梦。他的两个儿子也未能继承父志，让他的希望落空。在生活中残酷现实的不断挟制下，威利的幻想开始破灭，精神世界也开始崩塌。

Death of a Salesman not only addresses the painful conflicts within one family, but it also tackles larger issues regarding American national values. The play closely examines the cost of blind faith in the American Dream. In this respect, it offers a postwar American reading of personal tragedy in the tradition of Sophocles' Oedipus Cycle.
该剧不仅点明一个家庭内部令人哀痛的矛盾冲突，更是涉及美国社会的全民价值观。它对盲目迷信“美国梦”产生的后果做出深刻的剖析，以索福克勒斯笔下“俄狄浦斯三部曲”中的悲剧传统来解构战后美国的个人悲剧。