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In this paper the first part deals with the concept of American Dream on the back drop of various interpretations given by American statesmen, writers, historians and critics. The second part analyses how American Dream, in the era of the Great Depression, has its impact on Miller’s characters of one of the major plays The Price and how it affects their personality. It has been an accepted view that Miller wrote primarily on the backdrop of Great Depression and most of his protagonists are either the victims or the products of it and they struggle and suffer to negotiate their identities due to the wrong notion of American Dream.
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