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Images Of Loss In Tennessee Williams's The Glass Menagerie, Arthur Miller's Death Of A Salesman, Marsha Norman's Night, Mother, And Paula Vogel's How I Learned To Drive, Dipa Janardanan

English Dissertations

This dissertation offers an analysis of the image of loss in modern American drama at three levels: the loss of physical space, loss of psychological space, and loss of moral space. The playwrights and plays examined are Tennessee Williams's The Glass Menagerie (1945), Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman (1949), Marsha Norman's 'night, Mother (1983), and Paula Vogel's How I Learned to Drive (1998). This study is the first scholarly work to discuss the theme of loss with these specific playwrights and works. This dissertation argues that loss is a central trope in twentieth-century American drama. The purpose of this …