title: The Prose Reader: Essays for Thinking, Reading, and Writing Plus MyWritingLab -- Access Card Package (10th Edition)
author: Michael Flachmann
description: School Affiliations: The author is a Professor of English at California State University, Bakersfield, where he is also Director of University Honors Programs, Head Judo and Self-Defense Instructor, and Assistant Coach of the Women's Tennis Team. For the past twenty summers, he's also been Company Dramaturg for the Tony-Award-winning Utah Shakespearean Festival in Cedar City, Utah, where he's been on the design teams for over ninety professional productions of Shakespeare's plays. Since he has a doctorate in English literature from the University of Chicago, over thirty years' experience teaching the plays in the college classroom, many publications to his credit, and twenty years' service as a dramaturg in professional theatre, he has the expertise necessary to bring these plays to life for today's generation of students.
zlib_text: A  T E A C H E R ’ S  G U I D E  T O  T H E
  P E N G U I N
  E D I T I O N
  O F
  ARTHUR MILLER’S
  DEATH OF A SALESMAN
  By RANDEANE TETU, Middlesex Community College, Middletown, CT
  
  N O T E  T O  T H E  T E A C H E R  
  The questions, exercises, and assignments on these pages are designed to guide students’ reading of the literary work and
  to provide suggestions for exploring the implications of the story through discussions, research, and writing. Most of the
  items can be handled individually, but small group and whole class discussions will enhance comprehension. The
  Response Journal should provide students with a means, first, for recording their ideas, feelings, and concerns, and then
  for reflecting these thoughts in their writing assignments and class discussions. These sheets may be duplicated, but
  teachers should select and modify items according to the needs and abilities of their students. 
  I N T R O D U C T I O N  
  America has long been known as a land of opportunity. Out of that thi