After the Fall
After the Fall,two-act play by Arthur Miller, produced and published in 1964.
According to the stage directions, the “action takes place in the mind, thought, and memory” of Quentin, a man aged about 50, as persons with whom he has been involved “appear and disappear instantaneously.” These include his first wife, Louise, who berates him for failing to appreciate her as a person in her own right; a onetime friend and fellow Communist, now an informer to a congressional investigating committee; and another friend, also a former Communist, whom Quentin determines to defend but is happy not to have to when the friend commits suicide. The second act deals with the character Maggie, a onetime switchboard operator, then an enormously popular singer, Quentin's second wife, who sinks from guileless sexual love to neuroticism and pettiness destructive of him and finally of her, as she commits suicide. At the end Quentin seeks salvation through...
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