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Miller was writing for a middle-class audience. His plays were performed on Broadway, the center of New York's theatrical and (51) ___ ,life, and in London's West End. Therefore they reached only a (52) ___proportion of the population. Miller uses this fact (that the plays reached only a relatively small proportion of the population) to advantage in Death of a Salesman, where he examines American middle-class ideas and beliefs. He was able to place before his audience Willy Loman, a man who (53) ___many of their ideals, ones which have been summed up by the phrase the American Dream." The American Dream is a (54) ___of beliefs in the unity of the family, the healthiness of competition in society, the need (55) ___ success and money, and the view that America is the great land in which free opportunity for all exists. Some of these are connected: America seemed at one stage in history to offer alternatives (56) ___ the European way of life; she seemed to be the New World, vast, having plenty of land and riches for all of its people, all of (57) ___could share in the wealth of the nation. America was a land of opportunity. This belief is still apparent, even in twentieth- century America, with its large urban population, and Miller uses it in his plays, in order to state something significant about American society. In such a land (58) ___all people have a great deal of opportunity, success should come fairly easily, (59) ___an unsuccessful man could feel bitter about his failure, excluded as he was (60) ___the success around him. To become successful in the American Dream means to believe in competition, to reach the top as quickly as possible by proving oneself better than others.

(From Miller s Theatre and Miller’s ideas)

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