Miller portrays Loman, salesman, as capitalist wreckage - an ideological perspective on the selling of things that relentlessly gripped the 1950s - most famously in Sloan Wilson's novel (As an example of weird, Stevens eventually marries his Grade 5 teacher.) The protagonist is definitely not, as the title suggests, Milton Lumky - an aging paper salesman whose role in this novel merely recalls Willy Loman, the tragic hero of Arthur Miller's 1949 classic In Milton Lumky Territory - in which he casts his protagonist as a young Middle America typewriter salesman named Bruce Stevens. Four years afterĪdjustment Team, he wrote a weird and wonderful novel. Dick's interest in salesmen, as a literary prototype, went beyond the coincidental. Thanks a lot.') God works in mysterious ways His wonders to perform. (Fletcher looks heavenward and says: 'I think we'll make it after all. In the denouement, Fletcher escapes - well, readjustment - when a door-to-door vacuum cleaner salesman commands his wife's attention with a product demonstration: a neat bit of deflective staging. InĪdjustment Team, Fletcher gets to work one minute late, with cosmic consequences, because an insurance salesman inadvertently takes his ride. Dick peopled his tales with ordinary folk, often casting them as salesmen. They are special people, the aristocracy of our times: performers.

However interesting as characters, Norris is not everyman and Sellas is not everywoman. The Adjustment Bureau), the protagonist is a charismatic politician named David Norris (Matt Damon) in romantic pursuit of a ballerina named Elise Sellas (Emily Blunt). Dick made his protagonist, a happily married everyman named Ed Fletcher, a real estate salesman.

Adjustment Team by Philip K. Dick