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I. The source contained biographical information pertaining to the author Arthur Miller including his birth and death, his early life, his achievements, and some of his works including “The Prince”, “A Memory of Two Mondays”, ”After the fall”, “Death of a salesman”, and “The Crucible”. It is a very reliable source because it was found via the SRC student resource page and the encyclopedia Britannica is a private institution with the job of delivering accurate information.

II. A. 1. “Miller was shaped by the Great Depression, which spelled financial ruin for his father, and demonstrated to young Miller the insecurity of modern existence.”
a) This quote describes his early life which is prominent in one of his most important works “Death of a Salesman”, which features the main character Willy Lowman realizing how small and unimportant he is in this large world. This is based directly on his dead who lost all his money during the Great Depression, and he and his father lived dirt poor for a while. Most of Miller’s work is depressing due to his upbringing during the Great Depression.

2. “He made a play called “The Misfits” (1961), for his second wife, actress Marilyn Monroe.”
a) It shows where he got the ideas for some of his work, and that most of his work is based on his life. The situation between Marilyn Monroe and Arthur Miller wasn’t the best as the two divorced in Mexico because they were incompatible. They lived different lifestyles and in their five years of marriage they were always quarreling. It shows the type of life Arthur Miller had even after he became famous. If the plays were based on his life, he had tons of material to work off of.

3.”Miller received a Pulitzer Prize for the play “Death of a Salesmen”. In 1956...

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Ray, Benjamin “Salem Witch Trials,” OAH Magazine of History 17.4 (2003): 32-36

“Corruption of the American Dream” In Death of a Salesman: A Thematic Analysis of Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman.” Cross-Cultural Communication 6.3 (2010):122-126. Academic Search Complete. Wed. 6 Nov. 2013
Miller, Arthur. “Why I Wrote The Crucible: An Artist’s Answer to Politics.” New Yorker 21
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