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...house, while improvident father boozes. a. The Glass Menagerie 2. Mother clutches about her the fading rags of her social pretensions. b. Picnic 3. Father really loves his children, but he can't communicate with them, can't get through to them. c. Look Homeward, Angel 4. Beautiful young girl has trouble deciding whether to marry for money or sex. d. Death of a Salesman...
ANECDOTES OF DESTINY, by Isak Dinesen (244 pp.; Random House; $3.75), tells how, once upon a time, there was a theological student of Shiraz who thought highly of angels-so highly that he made himself wings and got all set for flight to the angelic spheres. But the Shiraz authorities, who disapproved of high-flown ideas, dressed up a beautiful dancer to look like an angel and planted her on the roof of the student's house, where he studied the skies. By next morning the happy student had reached two important conclusions: that angelic conduct...
...sincere belief in men and masters, rather than in men and men, in the sincere belief in some form of human slavery--yes, I mean this...." Wolfe did not finish this play at Harvard. He finished it years later, just before he abandoned drama and started Look Homeward, Angel...
...dramatic possibilities of the entire Wolfe family. Fragments have been found among his papers which suggest that Wolfe experimented with his family as characters for drama immediately following his father's death, and at this time conceived in some embryonic form, the general outline of Look Homeward, Angel...
...face of inter-war Europe. At times he was exultant, but often hopeless and despondent. From Brussels he wrote: "At 23, hundreds of people thought I'd do something. Now, no one does--not even myself. I really don't care very much...." Finally in 1929 Look Homeward Angel was published, and Thomas Wolfe came into...