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At the beginning of the play, Lee Baum and Arthur Robertson both appear independently. They are opposing victims of the Great Depression of the 1930s. Whilst Lee Baum has built up his life step by step after fall of his father鈥檚 fortunes, William Robertson has preempted the crash and sold out. The two men argue on their own opinions of the state of the financial crash. The two men set up the social argument of the play and emphasize their own social circumstances/backgrounds to argue the
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Start: Lee: There have been only two American disasters that were truly national. Not the first or second World Wars, Vietnam, or even the Revolution. Only the Civil War and the Great Depression touched nearly everyone wherever they lived and whatever their social class.
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End: Lee: For them the clock would never strike midnight, the dance and the music would never stop鈥�
Arthur Miller. The American Clock. Methuen London Ltd., 1983. pp.1-2.
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