ictor and Solomon, the old furniture buyer/seller. In those interchanges between Victor and Solomon, Miller is able to dramatically and compellingly show (rather than tell) the natures of two characters who are able to truly butt heads (without undue exposition) and, as a result, to come to some kind of a mutual understanding by the end of the play. However, the heart of the play is supposed to be the confrontation between the brothers, which in fact falls flat when compared to the Victor-Solomon exchanges.
The reader comes inevitably to the conclusion that the play is not a dramatic presentation of the differences between the brothers, but instead a half-digested attempt by the author to make a point which takes the form of a debate without compelling force. The reader comes to feel little but irritation for the brothers, rather than the compassion for them which Miller certainly intends for us to feel. It is no coincidence that t
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