s easy to tell how it was to live in those years, but I have made several attempts to tell it and when I do try I know I cannot quite touch that mysterious underwater, vile thing. (Welland, Pg. 38)
             His parents could not afford college for him, so the Depression affected his life in many ways. Miller hated the McCarthy Witch-hunt trials of the early 1950's, and once was called before that tribunal but was acquitted of all charges. His play, The Crucible, is a very powerful allegory to the McCarthy trials. He has used the American industry many times in his works and criticizes such social aspects of American society as it's bad moral values and people who put too much importance on material wealth.
             Miller especially admired Henrik Ibsen, the great Norwegian master of the "well-made", or tightly constructed, ordered play. Miller was familiar with the works of Eugene O'Neill, Clifford Odets, and Thornton Wilder as well as that of such European Experimentalists as Bertholdt Brecht. All My Sons, Miller's first drama to receive critical acclaim seemed to
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