American Literature / Unit 17 AML 1639 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Arthur Miller and *Death of a Salesman*
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The idea
The witness says Miller is known for ironic commentaries on the American dream, and that his plays capture the disillusionment and ambivalence of individual Americans. Death of a Salesman, of nineteen forty-nine, reached what another witness calls his personal pinnacle.
In practice
The American dream, examined ironically.
Where people slip
Miller, O'Neill and Williams are grouped together.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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