Appointment in Samarra | Love, Failure and Death in the O’Hara Country
In the following essay excerpt, Grebstein explores
the emotional history of Julian English and
its influence on his tragic circumstances in Appointment
in Samarra.
The tragedies of our time are very likely to be what Arthur Miller has called the tragedy of the common man. These are the tragedies of the mundane, the ordinary, the familiar: tragedies of men worn down by the everyday pressures of life or by their own inner pressures; pressures of earning bread; finding and maintaining an identity; of doing useful work; of keeping the love of one’s wife, children, neighbors; of expressing one’s simple human dignity; of remaining decent in the concrete jungle, the social jungle, the factory jungle, or the army jungle. So the tragedy of Julian...
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