{"id":107,"date":"2008-10-19T16:16:57","date_gmt":"2008-10-19T20:16:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/script_analysis\/2008\/10\/19\/research-millers-life-and-parallels-with-the-text\/"},"modified":"2008-10-19T16:17:53","modified_gmt":"2008-10-19T20:17:53","slug":"research-millers-life-and-parallels-with-the-text","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/script_analysis\/2008\/10\/19\/research-millers-life-and-parallels-with-the-text\/","title":{"rendered":"Research – Miller’s life and parallels with the text"},"content":{"rendered":"

Branching out from Alex’s biography of Arthur Miller, I would like to point out some parallels between his early life and the Loman family’s experiences.\u00a0 The biographical notes in The Portable Arthur Miller<\/em> state: “When he was asked recently in what way his plays were related to the events of his life, Miller replied, ‘In a sense all my plays are autobiographical.’\u00a0 The artist creates his biography through his work even as the events of his life serve to shape him”. (Bigsby vii)<\/p>\n

Miller was a Jewish middle-class New Yorker whose father was an immigrant from the former Austro-Hungarian empire.\u00a0 While their ethnicity and religion are never directly stated, it is widely accepted that the Lomans come from a similar background.\u00a0 Miller also was born and raised in New York, going to high school in Brooklyn (the home borough of the Lomans).\u00a0 Also as a young adult, he worked as a loader and shipping clerk in a warehouse.\u00a0 These experiences are reflected directly onto the lives of the Lomans, specifically Happy and Biff.<\/p>\n

The most striking parallel, however, can be seen in Willy’s ideal of being “well liked”. \u00a0 In Timebends: A Life<\/em>, Arthur Miller describes his father as “a fellow whom policemen are inclined to salute, headwaiters to find tables for, cab drivers to stop in the rain for, a man who will not eat in restaurants with thick water glasses, a man who has built one of the two or three largest coat manufacturing businesses in the country at the time and who cannot read or write any language” (Bigsby 2).\u00a0 Miller’s role model obviously created the mold for Willy’s ultimate measure of success.\u00a0 While Mr. Miller was not formally well-educated by any stretch of the imagination, he was prosperous and popular by dint of his prestige and likability.<\/p>\n

Source: The Portable Arthur Miller.\u00a0 Christopher Bigsby, ed.\u00a0 New York: Penguin Books, 1995.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Branching out from Alex’s biography of Arthur Miller, I would like to point out some parallels between his early life and the Loman family’s experiences.\u00a0 The biographical notes in The Portable Arthur Miller state: “When he was asked recently in what way his plays were related to the events of his life, Miller replied, ‘In … Continue reading Research – Miller’s life and parallels with the text<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":490,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[777,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hodge-2-dialogue-research","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/script_analysis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/script_analysis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/script_analysis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/script_analysis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/490"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/script_analysis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/script_analysis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/script_analysis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/script_analysis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/script_analysis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}