[单项选择]Arthur Miller’s plays will probably be performed for many years because his plays （　）.
A. criticize the mental pain average people suffer in their daily lives
B. reveal the emotional pain of average people in their daily lives
C. describe how average people try to fight with the emotional pain
D. demonstrate the method average people use to amuse themselves

(A)
Arthur Miller (1915-2005) is universally recognized as one of the greatest dramatists of the 20th century. Miller’s father had moved to the USA from Austria-Hungary, drawn like so many other by the "Great American Dream." However, he experienced severe financial hardship when his family business was ruined in the Great Depression of the early 1930s.
Miller’s most famous play, Death of a Salesman, is a powerful attack on the American system with its aggressive way of doing business and its insistence on money and social status as indicators of worth. In Willy Lowman, the hero of the play, we see a man who has got into double with his worth. Willy is "burnt out" and in the cruel world of business there is no room for sentiment: if he can’t do the work, then he is no good to-his employer, the Wagner Company, and he must go. Willy is painfully aware of this, and at loss as to what to do with h
A. He suffered from severe hunger in his home country.
B. He was attracted by the "Great American Dream".
C. He hoped to make his son a dramatist.
D. His family business failed.