Arthur Miller

[mono]

Sadly, the Pulitzer-prize winning author, Arthur Miller, most known for his play, Death of a Salesman, died earlier today at the ripe age of 89. Being admired as one of the best American playwrights, I feel his death marked the end of a great era of literature, and the beginning of Miller's great innovations on the stage.
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[mister_noel_y2k]

I just heard the news. R.I.P. Arthur Miller, you will never be forgotten.

[Surfer]

People talk about how Sun Also Rises defined a generation, or On The Road. How about Death Of A Salesmen? My parents grew up in a generation when Uncle Ben's dream of a self-made man was still very much a part of the public consciousness. Work hard, get ahead. I think Miller, and rightfully so, illustrated the death of the American Dream (or at least exposed it's fallacies, its rotted underbelly), and in a way defined a generation. In a sense, it paved the way for the counterculture of the sixties, a rejecting of those dreams, those ideals, those loyalties. It was really a bombshell at the time.

The Crucible was a pretty important play too.

[Scheherazade]

'The Crucible' is one of my favorite plays. Miller will always be remembered with the due respected he deserves.
Thank you for starting this thread, mono.

[amuse]

this is being discussed now on the radio.

...genius does love company doesn't it...kate hepburn's gone, ray charles, now miller.

r.i.p.

[Tabac]

Salesman will probably go down as his finest work. My favorite play, however, is All My Sons , which deals with government skirting costs, at the expense of innocent people. It's a tear-jerker!

[Zooey]

Well, the last of the big three of American Theatre (at least in my mind) have now passed on. I like to think that Miller is now hanging out with Eugene O'Neill and Tennessee Williams somewhere. Either way, he'll be greatly missed.

RIP, Mr. Miller.

[Molko]

Oh, that is so sad. He is one of my favourite playwrites :( I still cannot believe that he is gone. What a great loss to literature and theatre

[Monica]

I have read Arthur Miller's short stories and I loved "I Don't Need You Anymore". A great, great story.

[snapplepeaches]

I remember reading The Crucible by Arthur Miller in 10th grade. We learned so much from that play. I believe I have a few of his plays and even books by him. He lived a fascinating life, and I hope he continues to inspire people in the next level of his life.

~Sophia

[simon]

I never much liked the Crucible. Maybe plays are just harder to read since they are supposed to be seen or witnessed, a physical observation not an internalized fantasy. But though the subject matter was intersting enough, somehow it lacked anything that drew me into it. More overdramatization, though it is a drama, Death of a Salesman was much better in my low opinion.