“I saw clearly only when I saw with love. Not an easy play to read, but very real look at the ways we can harm the people we love the most. Miller was working through his own marriage in this play, and that truthfulness adds a layer of depth that fiction often can’t reach. They are unhappy together because they can't trust each other.BOTTOM LINE: The play is so heartbreakingly raw and intimate. Their relationship is doomed from the start. She has a drinking and drug problem and is an obvious parallel for Marilyn Monroe. The second wife, Maggie, is incredibly troubled, insecure, and jealous. It chronicles the main character's life as her falls in love with a young woman, his marriage ends, and he gets remarried to the young woman who has now become an international star and sex symbol. It’s a painfully biographical piece, one that mirrors the playwright’s own life. Quentin, a lawyer, reflects on his two marriages and his current relationship through a running inner monologue throughout the play.
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