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. ... After the war, the American Dream, an ethos which offered the chance of wealth even to those who start with nothing, began to be misinterpreted. ... In comparison, all of the action in "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?... Both plays show parents who create illusions surrou...

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