The Price (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Arthur Miller
- First Published: 1968
- Type of Work: Play
- Genres: Drama, Melodrama
- Subjects: Values, 1960’s, New York, North America or North Americans, Northeast, U.S., United States or Americans, Memory, New York City, Marriage, Jealousy, envy, or resentment, Brothers, Ambition, Success or failure, Money
- Locales: Manhattan, NY
The Price involves two brothers, Victor and Walter, and focuses on the distribution of their dead parents’ belongings, all housed in a ten-room brownstone. The secondhand furniture broker, Solomon, has offered a thousand dollars for these belongings, and Victor has reached a tentative agreement with him, although his wife and brother both urge him to hold out for three times the amount offered.
The play involves family secrets and duplicity. The brothers’ father, who had been reasonably prosperous, suffered the fate of many during the Great Depression of the 1930's...
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