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This study investigates the influence of masculine ideology on fathers and sons in the modern American play, Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller. The image of masculinity is in an increasingly unstable position between traditional conditioning and modern demands and desires. This study also explores the portrayals of men and the masculine image in cultural, social, and sexual contexts. Arthur Miller challenges critical ideas by disclosing them as unstable, cultural constructions rather than monolithic or biological ones. Although Miller’s play cannot represent all cases in American Drama, it can be used as a model to identify the construct of masculinity and its challenges within American society. (Seoul National University of Technology)