Ken -
Truely, the death of Arthur Miller is a sad day.
I certainly agree with your assessment of him. I have always
believed he was a great writer who understood America only too
well. Since I grew up with the values he presented in "Salesman"
I know just how important that drama was defining the American
"problem". I wonder if that problem is more universally espoused
in the world today.
I would think of Japan, for instance.
Why did he never win the Nobel Prize?
Tom
>One should not be surprised when an 89-year-old man dies, but Miller's
>death caught me short and leaves me with deep grief. Not a relative, just
>"another writer," one whose imperfections are probably all too
>glaring. But one who had something that seems to have vanished from the
>landscape: a moral and social conscience and the courage to exercise them
>on paper. If Death of a Salesman was not the grandiosely-described tragedy
>of everyman, it came closer than anything else I know to expressing "an
>American tragedy" born of a twisted ethos of life in the States that
>prevails to this day. And as for The Crucible...I wish it were still not
>as relevant as it was in 1953, but that says more about us than about
>Miller himself.
>
>He was a deeply gifted man and I shall miss him deeply.
>
>Ken
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>Kenneth Wolman www.kenwolman.com kenwolman.blogspot.com
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>"This is the best of all possible worlds only because it is the only one
>that showed up."-- Russell Edson
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