... is very obvious that they also need each other in the same time. Similarities between they key elements of "The Sandbox" and "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" The point of both of these masterpieces by Edward Albee is mainly to show what was life like as a member of a middle-class white American family during the 1950s to 1960s. This is an era of ... the nuclear war between the superpowers and just short after the Great Depression. Things were tough, but they were slowly getting better. America ... state of America. It successfully delivers a message that life in America is not perfect...

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... Grandma in Edward Albee's The American Dream is for critics and audiences the most appealing, the most refreshing, and the wisest figure in the play. She "represents the solid pioneer stock out of which the American dream might have come had it not been corrupted instead" (Wellworth 13) As Nicholas Canaday, Jr., states "She sees more clearly than anyone else in the play. . . . The fact is that she is far ahead of all the other characters ... be anticipated because of her marginal position in the household, what Albee offers as an allegory for the "American Scene". Grandma ultimately rep...

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Both Arthur Miller's "Death of a Salesman" and Edward Albee's "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?," are plays that focus on how individuals are "afraid of living a life without false illusions"1 and explores how the stripping away of these illusions can allow the characters to live happily. In 'Death of a Salesman' Willy considers himself to be a successful and popular salesman but, in reality, ... is neither. Miller appears to blame his illusionary mind-set on the pressure to be successful in post-war capitalist society. After the war, the American Dream, an ethos which offered the chance ...

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