Miller waswriting for middle-class audience His plays were perf

Miller waswriting for middle-class audience His plays were performed on Broadway, thecenter of New York's theatrical and (51)____life, and in London's West End.Therefore they reached only(52)____proportion of the population. Miller usesthis fact (that the plays reached only a relatively small proportion of thepopulation)to advantage in Death of a Salesman, where he examines Americanmiddle-class ideas and beliefs. He was able to place before his audience WillyLoman, a man who(53)____many of their ideals, ones which have been summed up bythe phrase “the American Dream.” The American Dream is a(54)____of beliefs inthe unity of the family, the healthiness of competition in society, theneed(55)____success and money, and the view that America is the great land inwhich free opportunity for all exists. Some of these are connected: Americaseemed at one stage in history to offer alternatives(56)____the European way oflife; she seemed to be the New World, vast,having plenty of land and riches forall of its people, all(57)____could share in the wealth of the nation. Americawas a land of opportunity. This belief is still apparent, even intwentieth-century America, with its large urban population,and Miller uses itin his plays, in order to state something significant about American society.In such a land, (58)____all people have great deal of opportunity, successshould come fairly easily, (59)____an unsuccessful man could feel bitter abouthis failure excluded as he was (60)____the success around him. To becomesuccessful in the American Dream means to believe in competition, to reach thetop as quickly as possible by proving oneself better than others.

(FromMiller's Theatre and Miller 's Ideas)

 
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