This book made me look at stereotypes in a new way. It's interesting that Mr. Lawrence Newman was stereotyped as being Jewish just because of the glasses he wore. Arthur Miller wrote about a dense subject in a different way than other World War II novels were written. It was engaging and easy to follow. It's amazing that he could have written this novel in the midst of the war- given the opinions of characters on the actual pages it must not have been easy to publish it immediately following.