How do people read or watch it and still believe in the American Dream

    • Wisp [fae/faer, any]
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      4 years ago

      I personally hated it because I disliked every character, but in retrospect maybe that was the point

      • VYKNIGHT [none/use name]
        hexagon
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        4 years ago

        The only people in the play you can't fault is the wife and the neighbors. Everyone else's personality was a component of the American Psyche that Arthur Miller magnified to show how ridiculous and hopeless it was, for a play from the 1940s, it holds up super well.

  • Gay_Wrath [fae/faer]
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    4 years ago

    I read the book in high school and hated it at first, but it's stuck with me ever since. The first time i ever meaningfully questioned the American Dream