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    Tag: Second Chances

    It isn’t a circle–it is simply a long line

    Dear Lorraine, I love how inconclusive your portrait of a 1950’s working-class African American family is in A Raisin in the Sun (1959) – the way it…… Read more “It isn’t a circle–it is simply a long line”

    3 de July de 2020 by juliana

    Like a gifted mathematician set to paint a picture

    Dear Dorothy, The Home-Maker (1924) does a good job at portraying a situation where people are forced into restrictive roles not only by external expectations and social…… Read more “Like a gifted mathematician set to paint a picture”

    11 de July de 201811 de July de 2018 by juliana

    That indefinitely extended requirement that one human being makes upon another

    Dear Iris, “I think it’s terrible to be in danger of writing a philosophical novel”, you said in an interview. And I know you have systematically refused to be called…… Read more “That indefinitely extended requirement that one human being makes upon another”

    4 de May de 201811 de December de 2018 by juliana

    The delicacy of one’s intellect, one’s sanity, when it is laid open to the specialists

    Dear Mary Jane, In your autobiographical novel The Snake Pit (1946) you throw us right inside the mind of a woman struggling to recover mental health. You…… Read more “The delicacy of one’s intellect, one’s sanity, when it is laid open to the specialists”

    21 de June de 2017 by juliana

    This thing of darkness I acknowledge mine

    Dear Margaret, You ingeniously managed to fulfill the task of writing a contemporary retelling of Shakespeare’s The Tempest – and, most importantly, you did it precisely by…… Read more “This thing of darkness I acknowledge mine”

    21 de October de 201621 de October de 2016 by juliana

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