The Crucible | Overview
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Arthur Miller’s writing spans a large block of twentieth-century American history. He was certainly influenced by the effects of the Great Depression, which uprooted his family when he was in his early teens. Anyone who lived through the deprivation and despair of the Depression could not help but be touched by it. Much of that despair is evident in Death of a Salesman, as the protagonist struggles to make ends meet.
Salesman was also highly influenced by the idea of the “American Dream” that was so pervasive in the early 1950s. After World War II...
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