Reputation In The Crucible By Arthur Miller

“The rich get richer, and the poor get poorer” is a very common economic saying that can be used to demonstrate reputation in The Crucible. In the play The Crucible by Arthur Miller; the playwright uses his characters to not only show the diverse authority that arises from reputation, but also the impotent struggles one will face without a reputation. We are given three different types of characters within The Crucible, but only two that make a difference. The three types are the extremely high, the mediocre, and the substantially low reputation characters. The characters, whose reputations are mediocre (Mr. Nurse, Cheever, Herrick), do not make a difference. People of the town such as Hale, Abigail, Proctor, Danforth, and Putnam have reputations