The film received many honors, including four Golden Globe Awards, the Volpi Cup and five Oscar nominations.

Loman's wife supports him, but he soon begins to lose his grip on reality and slips between the past and the present, frantically trying to find where he went wrong.

An insurance policy is paid out to the rest of the Loman family, as Willy felt he was worth more dead than alive.

Just before the film was about to be released, Arthur Miller threatened to sue Columbia Studios over the short that was to appear before Death of a Salesman.

[6] Benedek also stressed the dreary, middle class setting of the film, using small rooms and gray shots.

[8] New York Times Critics' Pick Death of a Salesman has been released on DVD format by Movies Unlimited.