Arthur Miller (Magill’s Choice: American Ethnic Writers)

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Arthur Miller first achieved success as a dramatist with All My Sons. Death of a Salesman, widely regarded as Miller’s most important play, contains many of the themes of identity that give distinction to Miller’s plays: the tension between father and son, the dangerous material lure of the American Dream, the influence of memory on the formation of personality, and the common man in a tragic situation.

Partly in response to the anticommunist hysteria that was led by Senator Joseph McCarthy and the House Committee on Un-American...

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