Posted on 10/19/2015 12:34:00 PM PDT by servo1969
Liberal professors? That crap oozed down into the high schools. My American Lit class was nothing but propaganda.
What did you read in that class?
Not exactly a surprise.
Completely horrible. I blame my parents for letting me be subjected to that crap!
Native Son works as a thought experiment. Wright really did predict a now common prototype of the disaffected, violent young black male.
What did you read that you didn’t like?
The Crucible, of course, is NOT his best play. It is a good play - especially taken at face value - but it is not his best. That is reserved for Death of a Salesman. My father, a rock-ribbed Republican who grew up under terrible circumstances during the Depression, cried when he saw the original B’way production. It is odd that so many of our most talented people are drawn to the evils of communism. I’ll never understand it.
Of course, I’ve known Miller was a commie for 40 years. That said, I would often see him on 2nd Avenue trying to get a cab. He always wore his trademark safari jacket, lol.
he wrote All My Sons, right?
Thought it was good. Greed should never put our armed forces in danger but i bet it does.
Death of a Salesman shows the successful geeky neighbor and shows the devastating effect cheating on a spouse can have.
Spoiling kids ends badly.
The Crucible, definitely a reference to the McCarthy ere, is a good book with a good lesson.
If you go overboard people start to distrust you.
I think he mistakenly made some very good points and there are far worse books when it comes to left wing writing.
Funny you should mention Native Son. I just ordered American Hunger on my kindle. He was a great writer and not overly kind to his black family anymore than to the whites who oppressed him.
I tell all my friends to watch All My Sons but it’s rarely played on TCM. Excellent movie and my fav with Edward G.
Didn’t he write “Death of a Salesman?” I had to read that in HS English. What a waste of ink. By the second chapter I wanted the main character to die just so he would shut up.
These are all very good plays. A View from the Bridge has recently been revived on B’way. It’s not my personal favorite but that’s personal taste for you.
The British frequently revive him.
That’s a good movie! I haven’t seen it in years. I’m sure it is based on truth. There are bad people everywhere.
The Brothers Judd website has a good point...
“Miller, in reducing capitalism to nothing more than a kind of cheap hucksterism, has followed in the footsteps of Theodore Dreiser, Sinclair Lewis, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and the like, with equally obtuse results.
It is the genius of capitalism that chaff like the Willy Loman’s are ruthlessly winnowed. Willy and his sons are so transparently phony it makes your flesh crawl just listening to them. It’s not as if Willy had been steadily advancing through the business world and then suddenly hit the wall. He’s spent forty years on the lowest rung of the corporate ladder for a reason. That reason?, he has been judged inadequate, long before his age caught up to him. This is a man who should have been a gym teacher and an athletics coach. But not only has he deluded himself and ignored forty years of messages from the system, he also insists that his sons follow in his clearly misguided footsteps.”
My dad taught high school English....
When the Soviet Union reached a state of collapse and their archives were opened for perusal, one pertinent fact emerged: JOE MC CARTHY was RIGHT!
Hey, it was settled science, like AGW!
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