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;Arthur Miller (October 17, 1915 – February 10, 2005) was an American playwright and essayist. A prominent figure in American theatre and cinema for almost 100 years, writing a wide variety of dramas, including celebrated plays such as The Crucible, A View from the Bridge, All My Sons, and Death of a Salesman, which are studied and performed worldwide. Arthur Miller was born in New York. His father was a ladies-wear manufacturer and shopkeeper who was ruined in the depression. The sudden change in fortune had a strong influence on Miller. Millers plays often depict how families are destroyed by false values. Poverty will have a lasting effect Insecurity of modern existence;Arthur Miller 阿瑟?米勒 Marilyn Monroe 玛丽莲?梦露 ;His Major Works;II. Death of A Salesman;II. Death of A Salesman; ;Willy Loman;Biff Loman;Linda Loman;Happy Loman The younger of the two Loman sons, Happy Loman is seemingly content and successful, with a steady career and none of the obvious marks of failure that his older brother displays. Happy, however, is not content with his more stable life, because he has never risked failure or striven for any real measure of success. Happy is a compulsive womanizer who treats women purely as sex objects and has little respect for the many women whom he seduces. ; Ben Willys older brother, Ben left home at seventeen to find their father in Alaska, but ended up in Africa, where he found diamond mines and came out of the jungle at twenty-one an incredibly rich man. Although Ben died several weeks before the time at which the play is set, he often appears in Willys hallucinations, carrying a valise and umbrella. Ben represents the fantastic success for which Willy has always hoped but can never seem to achieve. ;Howard Wagner;Bernard;Death of a Salesman the American Dream;Miller had an uncertain relationship with the idea of the American dream. On one hand, Bernards success is a demonstration of the idea in its purist and most optimistic form. Through h