The Miracle Worker | The Miracle Worker
In this excerpt, the author praises Gibson's skill in telling an emotionally gripping story while avoiding the pitfalls of melodrama.
If it is sometimes difficult to make ugliness palatable, it is even more difficult to make goodness persuasive.
All audiences love to have their emotions stirred in the theater, and all audiences hale to have their emotions stirred too easily. The greatest danger author William Gibson faced in telling the story of Helen Keller in The Miracle Worker was that of arousing the quick, instinctive resentment of people who might come to feel that they had opened their hearts to a setup.
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