How, through dialogue and other dramatic effects, Miller has constructed a credible representation of human conflict.

"In all my plays and books I try to take setting and dramatic situations from life which involve real questions of right and wrong. Then I set out, rather implacably and in the most realistic situations I can find, the moral dilemma and try to point out a real, though hard, path out. I don't see how you can write anything decent without using the question of right and wrong as the basis." Arthur Miller, 1948, …showed first 75 words of 1501 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1501 total…when others tell him, by characterising him as falling back into ignorance. Arthur Miller creates a man with a strong, understandable (if not entirely acceptable) affection for his niece. We are presented over and over again with someone who wants a particular lifestyle and it is easy to believe Eddie will not see that it just cannot happen. This is a truly human quality: human beings always seem to be wanting what they cannot have.