A Memory of Two Mondays is a
one-act play by
Arthur Miller. Based on Miller's own experiences, the play focuses on a group of desperate workers earning their livings in a
Brooklyn automobile parts
warehouse during the
Great Depression in the 1930s, a time of 25 percent unemployment in the United States. Concentrating more on character than plot, it explores the dreams of a young man yearning for a
college education in the midst of people stumbling through the workday in a haze of hopelessness and despondency. Three of the characters in the story have severe problems with
alcoholism.