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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 …

…play is that the average person in the audience can relate to the story he is telling and the characters in his story. Fathers can relate to Willy Loman in Death of a Salesman, sibling rivalry can be compared to Walter and Victor in The Price, and any person who has a prejudice of any kind can relate to the horrific prejudice in The Crucible. Arthur Miller is truly a playwright for the common people.