Steyn should try to emulate me and be less well read. That way he would have only read Miller's "Death of Salesman" and could agree uncritically with all the critical acclaim.
I just want to know why people read stuff like Death of a Salesman.
There's enough gloom in the world through the news without adding to it through literature.
I don't want to read or listen to a gloomy story. If I'm giving my time to something, it has to be optimistic and in some way positive.
Why all this focus on gloom and tragedy in literature -- and in literature classes?
I can't think of something surer to turn off students than gloom.
It sure turned me off when I was required to study literature.
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