Over the past few decades, Arthur Miller has become a well known American
playwright. He has won numerous awards and is credited for doing amazing
work. Miller was born in lower Manhattan in 1915. His family moved to
Brooklyn during The Great Depression where his father worked as a ladies-wear
manufacturer and his mother worked as a schoolteacher. His father's company,
however, was ruined because of the depression. Money was tight and this made
it difficult to pay for schooling. Miller started working a variety of jobs to help
pay his tuition to the University of Michigan. While studying there, he began his
career in writing plays. After graduating in 1938, his first published play, The
Man Who Had All the Luck, was released to the public. Unfortunately, it was not
a big hit, closing after only four shows. Miller's first major success came when
he premiered his play All My Sons at the Coronet. His biggest hit, however,
came in 1949 when he opened Death of a Salesman at the Morosco. This
became the masterpiece to which all his other work was compared. There have
been many remade versions of this outstanding play which won him a Tony
Award and a Pulitzer Prize. One remake was as recent as 1998. His fame did
not end there. Miller went on to produce several other plays including: The
Enemy of the People, The Crucible, which was also a big hit, A View From the
Bridge, After the Fall, Incident at Vichy, The Creation of the World, The Price,
The Archbishop's Ceiling, The American Clock, The Ride Down Mt. Morgan,
The Last Yankee, and his most recent Broken Glass (Sommer, 2).
Three of Miller's most famous works are Death of a Salesman, The Crucible
and The Price. All of them brought him instant fame nationwide. Among all
these works are several different themes. The common theme throughout these
three plays is imaginative thinking and unrealism. The...