Focus (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Arthur Miller
- First Published: 1945
- Type of Work: Novel
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: Racism, Sex or sexuality, New York City, 1940’s, Prejudices or antipathies, Anti-Semitism, Visions, epiphanies, or revelations
- Locales: New York
Arthur Miller's first play, The Man Who Had All the Luck, closed after only four performances in 1944, although in the same year, Miller received the Theatre Guild National Award. In this play, Miller was concerned with how people can find a spiritual home in an outside world that often is corrupt and destructive. It was essentially this concern that he explored in his first novel, Focus.
Initially, Lawrence Newman, a corporate personnel manager, is much concerned with propriety, with external appearances, as Willy Loman was in Death of a Salesman. The...
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