Arthur Miller's Foreshadowing

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Arthur Miller is one of the popular authors of the 20th century (“Arthur Miller”); having sold over 250 million books, his contribution to literature is extensive. He has a lot of novels, plays, and fiction stories written. He became a well-known writer after writing the play Death of a Salesman. An interesting thing about his career and the play is that he wrote Death of a Salesman in just one day and won three awards from it (“Arthur Miller Facts”). In the play, Death of a Salesman, Arthur Miller uses a thrilling sense of dramatic suspense to keep readers on the edge of their seats, there a lot of foreshadowing and uses captivatingly detailed imagery in the play. Arthur Miller was born in 1915, October was the month. Miller was born in New

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