Arthur Miller was born in Harlem New York City New York on October 17, 1915. With both Jewish immigrant parents from Poland he was wealthy enough that he could afford a six floor apartment. On October 24, 1929 stock market crashed and Arthur Miller and his family who invest in stocks and took a hard-hit in the depression within a couple years Miller was forced to move from Manhattan to Brooklyn. Arthur Miller graduates from high school in 1932 from Brooklyn Abraham Lincoln high school and begins to work in a auto warehouse to save money to go to college. He finally has enough money to go to college and he registers at a city College but quits after 2 1/2 weeks. Arthur Miller wrote the crucible because he was trying to propose an allegory for