Who is Arthur Miller?
Arthur Miller was an American playwright, best known for his plays Death of a Salesman and The Crucible, and his high-profile private life. He was born in 1915, in New York City, and died in 2005 at the age of 89. Over the course of his long career he won numerous awards, and is considered by many to be one of the greatest playwrights in American history. Arthur Miller was born to upper-middle class Jewish parents before the outbreak of the first World War. On the advent of the Great Depression, when he was only fourteen years old, his family’s business failed, and the family was forced to reduce the cost of their lifestyle drastically, settling into a more comfortably middle-class life. With these limited means, Miller was forced to work a number of simple jobs to earn money to pay college tuition, and at that time he read Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov, which inspired him to become a writer. Eventually he saved enough to pay tuition, and was able to attend the University of Mich
2.Examine the title All My Sons, predict what might the play about? Write your prediction of the play. 3. There has been a theater production based on this play. Read the review on the play. As you start reading the play, try to compare your critique on the play to other critics’, and defend your arguments. Study Questions Part I (pages355-381) a. Make a list of key words that describe the stage setting, then draw the setting .On the other side of the drawing, list all the characters’ names and their relationships among one other. Use this as your bookmark as you continue reading the play. b. Describe Mr. Keller. Draw a portrait of him using the key descriptive words as captions of your drawing. c. What happened to the apple tree in Keller’s yard? How does Mr. Keller associate the apple tree with his son Larry? What happened to Larry? d. Why did Frank say that Larry might still be alive? e. What kind of relationship is there between Jim and Sue? Use some quotes (original dialogue betwe
