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Before one even reaches a minute into reading The Death of a Salesman (1949), a Pulitzer Prize-winning play by American playwright Arthur Miller, there is a pervasive emotion that is felt from the beginning and carried to the end of the play: the complete exhaustion of all the characters. Exhaustion, for these characters, is not just experienced after a demanding workday or a traumatic event; it lingers with the characters as though it’s a constant emotion, always hovering. From the…