The death of a playwright

Father I will always be
That same boy that stood by the sea and
Watched you tower over me
Now I'm older I wanna be
the same as you....

~Yellowcard.....The Life of a Salesman~




I always wondered why that song carried that title.
It's one of my favourite songs.
The boys that make up the punk band Yellowcard come from a school for the arts in Jacksonville, which is made obvious in that they named a song for an Arthur Miller play. Now I'm very curious to read this play and compare it to the song. Word for word, concept for concept.
Miller's play "The Death of a Salesman" was written in 1949 and remains one of his most famous works. He also wrote The Cruciable about the Salem witch trials and compared them to the congressional investigations going on at the time. After the Fall (1964) was a barely-disguised portrayal of his failing marriage to Marilyn Monroe, and two of his one-acts have to do with issues of responsibility and the prices some people pay for success.
Arthur Miller, in his lifetime, has made a reputation for himself in his writings about moral and political issues.
On February tenth, 2005 one of the twentieth century's finest paywrights died in his home of heart failure at 89 years old. Winner of the pulitzer prize and several tony awards, Miller will be remembered as one of the finest playwrights in American theatre.