Arthur Miller's Accomplishments

Throughout a human’s lifetime life changing events happen that molds the individual into who they will become. Authors in particular are great examples of this because many of the times the author’s lifestyle immensely impacts their work. One great example is Arthur Miller; he is the author of many great american stories some of which are the story Death of a Salesman, The Man Who Had All The Luck and All My Sons. Knowing the actual real reason as to why exactly Arthur Miller wrote some of his stories might be hard to figure out; but it was known that Miller often wrote about his own personal stories and issues. The most important ones he had felt comfortable with sharing that is of course. From the research that I have done I was lead to

In Arthur Miller’s various works he hints to the reader that he wants to portray the American society’s false ideals of power and success. He came out with this play in the late 1940’s, 1949 to be specific. During this time period World War II had just ended (WWII ended in 1945.) At this time low-paid jobs included; farm workers, unskilled laborers and sales clerk. Which lead to the reason of Happy becoming a sales clerk and Biff working on a farm. Growing up however Biff and Happy experienced “the American Dream” until they realized who their father truly was. While the boys were young Willy was doing great because the start of credit cards was now on the rise and Willy was making much more due to people using them on his sales. After that was when the war occurred and the economy wasn’t doing as great as it once was. Willy’s perfect dream and picture had been washed away, and so had the boys. After the war credit cards were more widely used by different levels of people. Now people were buying things that they couldn’t afford; with money that they didn’t have, to impress people that they didn’t care about. In an article the author states “However, the economic situation was not

Miller had two uncles who were salesmen. Growing up Miller had a lot of conflict with one of his uncles, Uncle Manny. Manny Newman, worked as a salesman. In an article, about Arthur Miller’s life, states “In his youth, Miller had written a short story about an unsuccessful salesman. His relationship with Manny revived his interest in the abandoned manuscript” (SparkNotes Editors). Which is where he got the salesman idea for Willy. His Uncle Manny’s son and Miller were constantly in competition with one another, competing at everything they did. Uncle Manny wasn’t accepting of failure by any means and wanted to have the appearance of confidence no matter what. In book the Student Companion to Arthur Miller the author describes an incident that Miller had with his uncle and it states “On meeting his Uncle Manny at a matinee performance of All My Sons, Miller asked how he was doings. Instead of replying, Many went straight into saying how well his sons were doing, as if he felt he had to build them up in competition against their successful playwright cousin.” (Abbotson, 34). This interaction with his uncle gave Miller the path to create his character Willy, which had that same attitude toward his boys like his uncle did towards his boys. He raised his sons up so high and put them on a pedestal that they