[miss marmelstein]

Well, I guess you don't mind Willy being thrown into a grave like an old dog, as Linda Loman says. I beg to differ. My father went through the Depression when his wealthy father lost all his money and they went from a fine home in Harlem to a slum in East New York. A conservative republican, my father didn't want Willy thrown into an unmarked grave either. He and his family had lived it unlike later generations.

And F. Scott Fitzgerald may be the worst “left wing” writer in the world even if you could categorize him as such. He tried his hand at it in the 1930s because he was being hounded by Hollywood leftists and communists (the awful wife of Nathaniel West comes to mind) and he was desperate for money to help clear up his debts and provide for his wife. Possibly America's greatest writers, I'm surprised you would single him out.

P.S.: the other writers you mention are pretty damned good too.

[Borges]

I was quoting another site.

[Borges]

Miller’s stuff has held up a lot better than some of the more overt agitprop from the era like Clifford Odets. I saw a production of ‘Awake and Sing’ and it’s quite dreary. A big influence on Miller I think.