The Ride Down Mt. Morgan (Masterplots II: Drama, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Arthur Miller
- First Published: 1991
- Type of Plot: Tragicomedy
- Time of Work: c. 1990
- Setting: Elmira, New York
- Principal Characters: Lyman Felt, Theodora “Theo” Felt, Bessie, Tom Wilson, Father, Leah Felt
- Genres: Realism, Drama, Tragicomedy
- Subjects: Marriage, Betrayal, Polygamy or bigamy, Adultery, Accidents, Executives, Truthfulness and falsehood, Business or business people, Corruption, Success or failure, Morality or morals, Hospitals, Corporations
- Locales: New York
The Play
As The Ride Down Mt. Morgan opens, Lyman Felt is lying half-conscious in a hospital bed with a leg and an arm in casts. The night before the action begins, Lyman crashed his Porsche while driving down a treacherous stretch of Mount Morgan in the middle of an ice storm in upstate New York. While he has been unconscious, the hospital contacted his family in Manhattan and, as he awakens from what seems to be a dream about his father, he learns that his wife and daughter have just arrived. This does not make him happy; in fact, it seems to terrify him. He cries,...
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