In Miller’s play that is totally woven around the American Dream, the Lomans live in Brooklyn, a busy suburb of New York City. America is enjoying a postwar economic boom, but the World War has caused a shake-up in American society, changing the way people view business, leisure, themselves, and others, making the American way of life very different from what was projected as the ‘American Dream’ by the Founding Fathers of the country. The events of Arthur Miller’s play Death of a Salesman take place in 1949, four years after the Second World War has come to an end.
