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根据下列内容,回答题。Arthur Miller(1915.2005)is universally recognized as one of the greatest dramatists of the 20thcentury.Miller’s father had moved to the USA from Austria-Hungary,drawn like so many othersby the“Great American Dream.”However,he experienced severe financial hardship when hisfamily business was ruined in the Great Depression of the early l930s.
Miller’s most famous play,Death of a Salesman,is a powerful attack on the American systemwith its aggressive way of doing business and its insistence on money and social status as indicatorsof worth.In Willy Lowman,the hero of the play,we see a man who has got into double with hisworth.Willy is“burnt out”and in the cruel world of business there is no room for sentiment:if hecan’t do the work,then he is no good to his employer,the Wagner Company,and he must go.
Willy is painfully aware of this,and at loss as to what to do with his lack of success.He refuses tofaee the fact that he has failed and kills himself in the end.
When it was first staged in 1949,the play was greeted with enthusiastic reviews,and it wonthe Tony Award for Best Play。the New York Drama Critics’Circle Award,and the Pulitzer Prizefor Drama.It was the first play to win all three of these major awards.
Miller died of heart failure at his home in Roxbury,Connecticut,on the evening of February10,2005,the 56th anniversary of the first performance of Death of a Soleson Broadway.
Why did Arthur Miller’s father move to the USA? __________. A.He suffered from severe hunger in his home country
B.He was attracted by the“Great American Dream’’
C.He hoped to make his son a dramatist
D.His family business failed
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