Death Of a Salesman
-Themes, Motifs, Symbol
▣prologue
“Death Of Salesman”은 1949년 미국에서 발표된 아서 밀러의 대표작이다. 워낙에 유명한 작품이지만, 작품의 내용을 한 마디로 말하라면 어느 평범한 세일즈맨의 비극적인 죽음이라 할 것이다. 이 단순한 이야기가 1949년 발표하고 초연한 이래 2년간 계속 상연되었
hand is on
his shoulder. As the mourners go past and each takes a
turn shoveling a clod of dirt into an open grave --
SAM
If we start asking why well go
crazy. So, rule number one.
We dont ask why.
CUT TO:
CLOSE ON ANNIE REED
Pretty, blonde, animated. Jeans, a T-shirt, a Baltimore
Orioles hat.
ANNIE
Why? I just want to know why?
Thats my first rule. I always
ask why. Come on. Tell me.
Cmo
hand appears and
spins the tumbler. The safe door opens. Inside, we see the
dazed rabbit with little TWEETING BIRDS circling his head.
VOICE (O.S.)
Cut, cut, cut!
The cartoon action stops abruptly, but the goofy CARTOON
MUSIC PLAYS ON. We begin a slow PULL BACK TO REVEAL that
this cartoon is being filmed LIVE ON A SOUND STAGE. The
title card sits on an easle. The female legs are paper
mache props
handle. It is locked. Behind it the voice goes on, rising in
volume.
OLD SALIERI
Show some mercy! I beg you. I beg you! Show mercy to a guilty
man!
The Valet knocks gently on the door. The voice stops.
VALET
Open the door, Signore! Please! Be good now! Weve brought
you something special. Something youre going to love.
Silence.
VALET
Signore Salieri! Open the door. Come now. Be good!
The voice of
hands, studying it.
LOU
Youre still going to have to settle with
your mothers landlord on the back rent.
Nell watches Janes little boy, RICHIE. Unpacified by the
cartoons on the TV, he plows a plastic tank across a shelf
through neat rows of delicate PORCELAIN DOLLS.
NELL
Im not going to stay. Ill get a job.
Ill get my own apartment.
Richie knocks a porcelain DOLL off, and it breaks all over
the