Arthur Miller: Research Paper Arthur Miller was your average boy growing up in New York in the 1930s mid the Great Depression. Many things were against Miller while he was developing, striving to be a successful dramatist; but even with all of the factors that were stacked against him, Arthur Miller rose above it all and is remembered today as a world renowned playwright whose beliefs, his honesty and true perspective of man, allowed him to produce many works, like “All my Sons” and “Death of a Salesman” that are revered as classics. Arthur Miller’s parents, two Jewish Polish immigrants journeyed to America with the American Dream in mind. The two were very assiduous and tried their best during this during the time of the Great Depression. The state of his family’s economic stability was a constantly changing due to the perpetual crashes in the stock market, which impinged Miller’s …show more content…
In All My Sons, Joe Keller’s actions are so terrible that one of his sons kills himself, and the other completely rejects him” (Abbotson, 55). When this play first was released it wasn’t very popular because most people found it was “overly plotted and contained implausible coincidences” (Abbotson, 56). Miller brushed off this negative feedback because he worked tirelessly to make this play perfect for two years so he simply accepted that no body understood his work and kept moving forward. Soon after he wrote All My Sons, Arthur Miller wrote his most famous piece of work by far, a play that today is a required curriculum in many schools and universities, The Death of a Salesman. This tale is about the last 24 hours of Willy Loman’s life, “a victim of both a heartless capitalist society and his own misguided dreams, although he has neither social nor intellectual stature, Willy has dignity, and he strives to maintain this as his life falls apart around him.” (Abbotson,