The Price (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Arthur Miller
- First Published: 1968
- Type of Work: Play
- Type of Plot: Melodrama
- Time of Work: The 1960’s
- Setting: A brownstone in Manhattan, New York
- Genres: Drama
- Subjects: Values
- Locales: Manhattan, NY
Characters Discussed
Victor Franz, a fifty-year-old police sergeant in New York City. Frustrated and disillusioned, Victor lives almost exclusively in the past, conveniently blaming his brother for the direction that his life has taken and unwilling to accept that he alone, by his own free will, charted his own destiny. He has a strong sense of familial loyalty. Victor’s self-esteem and self-worth rest solely in his belief that he did the honorable thing decades earlier by sacrificing his college studies to become a policeman so that he could support his bankrupt father. Now,...
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