Mahila Vidyalaya P. G College, Lucknow.
Her areas of interest are American Literature and Indian writing in English. Her critical monograph entitled ‘American New Humanist Criticism’ was published by Writers Workshop, Calcutta.
Arthur Miler's Death of a Salesman (1949) set in the middle of twentieth century has encapsulated the drift of nation at a particular historic moment. Miller strongly condemned the cultural development of America where society placed material values above human values, where all human relationships were corrupted by the insane pursuit of money, power and success. In the wake of capitalist society-the world of ‘phony idealism’, was intensifying the agony of modern man like Willy Loman, who under the pressure of materialistic civilization succumbed to death by committing suicide hoping that the insurance money would support his family and his son Biff would get a new start in life. The article takes within its purview a clinical analysis of what happened when a man (Loman) does not have a grip on the forces of life. The aspects of character which are to be highlighted are aspects of psychological significance in which acceptance of social realities is subsumed and emotional crisis is in fact the outcome of such an acceptance.
