How did the great drepression affect millers family life and possibly lead to the writing?

Arthur Miller grew up in New York. His father,

Isidore Miller, manufactured clothing and worked a store. But the

father lost his money in the great economic Depression in the

nineteen thirties. His family had to move from a costly apartment

in Manhattan to a minor house in Brooklyn.

During the Depression, Arthur worked at many

jobs to earn money for college. In nineteen thirty-four, he began

studying English at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Miller

won an award for writing plays while at school.

Miller returned home to New York after

completing his studies. He married his college girlfriend, Mary.

They had two children before later ending their marriage.

In nineteen forty-four, Arthur Miller's first

major play was performed on Broadway. It was called "The Man Who

Had All the Luck." However, the play did not bring him good luck.

It had only four performances. But his second Broadway play, "All

My Sons", was a major success It won several awards in nineteen

forty-seven.

This story "All My Sons" tells of a

manufacturer who produces faulty parts for airplanes used in World

War Two. One of his sons died as the result of the father's crime.

In this play, Miller examines the relationship between the pressure

to succeed and personal responsibility.

He try to questions the pressures in American

society for people to gain financial success through his great play

"Death of a Salesman". This play also remains his exploration of

the relationships between fathers and sons.

From some of his plays Miller was able to

dramatize the emotional pain that average people suffer in their

daily lives.