The Price (Masterplots II: Drama, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Arthur Miller
- First Published: 1968
- Type of Plot: Melodrama
- Time of Work: The 1960’s
- Setting: A brownstone in Manhattan, New York
- Principal Characters: Victor Franz, Esther Franz, Gregory Solomon, Walter Franz
- Genres: Drama
- Subjects: Values
- Locales: Manhattan, NY
The Play
The Price begins with Victor Franz’s entrance into a room crowded with old furniture that is ugly but impressive. A nice-looking uniformed police sergeant, Victor steps meditatively, gazing at his deceased parents’ furniture; various pieces attract him, before the phonograph draws him and he puts on a “laughing record.” Two comedians’ attempts to utter a sentence are interrupted by gales of laughter, and Victor himself chuckles and then begins to laugh hard.
Esther, his wife, enters, hears the laughter, and thinks that a party is occurring, and...
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