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A 3 page essay that discusses what elements in Miller's biography may have influenced the creation of his play Death of a Salesman. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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man, as he owned a coat and suit manufacturing company and employed over 800 employees. However, this prosperity was not to last. As with the vast majority of American families,
Arthur Millers father lost everything in the Great Depression of the 1930s. This period shaped Millers life and provided him with the understanding that provided the foundation of his most
acclaimed play Death of a Salesman. It was the financial ruin of his father that demonstrated to the adolescent Miller the insecurity of modern existence, which is a principal
theme in Death of a Salesman ("Arthur"). Black Thursday, October 24, 1929, the day of the Wall Street stock market crash, occurred roughly a year after Millers bar mitzvah (Gottfried
11). Isadore Millers company, the Miltex Coat and Suit Company, was able to remain viable, but the family was still destitute because Arthurs father had invested heavily in the stock
market. All of the familys savings, all of Isadores capital, everything, was invested, based on the idea that the stock market would continue to ascend wildly as it had done
throughout the 1920s (Gottfried 12). The Miller family had to move from their fashionable apartment in Manhattan, with its view of Central Park, to Brooklyn. Their new home consisted
of "six rooms and a pile of clapboard, a sad comedown from the sixth floor splendor of Central Park North" (Gottfried 12). They lived across the street from his mothers
sisters. In Brooklyn, with its empty lots and open spaces, it was possible to play games that were not possible in the restricted space of Manhattan, such as football, which
also is a key element in Salesman, as Willy Lomans eldest son Biff was a star football player in high school. In Salesman, a key feature of the play
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