Index

Aarnes, William, 125, 127, 129, 131, Ben-Zvi, Linda, 12 132, 134 Bernard, 3, 4, 6, 61, 66, 67–68, 69, 71, Abandonment, 16, 18, 83, 86, 88, 84, 90, 91, 129, 130, 142, 167, 168 89, 156 Bible, 34, 35, 121 Abbotson, Susan, 38 Bigsby, Christopher (C.W.), 11, 16, 18, 24, Acceptance, 49, 55, 62, 81, 86, 89, 35, 39, 41, 64, 65, 68, 70, 78, 82, 91, 93, 124, 125, 127, 129, 142, 157, 123, 124, 135 159–160 Billman, Carol, 12 Actor, 17, 25, 106–108, 109, 110, 114, Bliquez, Guerin, 12, 24 116, 124 Bloom, Harold, 32, 140–141, 145, 163, Adams, Henry, 97–98, 100–103 166, 169 Adler, Thomas, 40 Bradbury, Malcolm, 45 Adonis, 6, 131, 132, 135 Brater, Enoch, 78 Africa, 4, 22, 80, 130, 138, 156 Brecht, Bertolt, 105, 113 After the Fall, 11, 101 Broadway Theatre, 25, 29, 34, 43, 62, Alaska, 4, 22, 80, 86, 87, 118, 130, 100, 102, 151 138, 156 Broken Glass, 39 Albee, Edward, 35, 37, 105 Brucher, Richard T., 96 Alger, Horatio, 130 Bush, First Lady Laura, 33 Alienation, 37, 43, 44, 45, 52, 71, 72, Business, 2–10, 15, 31, 36, 41, 50, 53, 73, 74, 123 54, 55, 62, 63, 67, 69–70, 72, 73, 75, The American Clock, 39 76, 79, 81–93, 97, 100, 112, 115, American Dream, 2, 3–5, 9, 14, 21, 22, 116, 124, 130, 142, 163, 167, 168 23, 26, 29, 38, 48, 49, 50, 54, 57, 59, 67, 71, 81, 83, 88, 138, 156, 166, 167 Canning, Charlotte, 12 Anderson, Maxwell, 100 Capital, 11, 29, 130 Anti-feminism, 24, 30, 31 Capitalism, 2, 5–6, 13, 16, 21, 23, Ares, 122 31, 54, 61–63, 66–67, 69, 71, Aristotle, 112, 152 72–74, 77–80, 81–93, 102, 114, August, Eugene R., 13 115, 117, 118 Austin, Gayle, 12 Carbone, Beatrice, 16 Avery Fisher Hall, 33 Cardo, Amanda, 48, 49, 51, 55, 57 Carnegie, Dale, 3, 43 Balakian, Janet N., 13 Castellitto, George P., 99 Bates, Barclay W., 140 Catharsis, 49, 152 Beijing, 17, 41, 43, 55, 141, 149 Centola, Steven, 1, 49, 54 182 Index

Charley, 4–6, 11, 16, 28, 57, 61, 63–69, 129, 134, 137, 140–146, 154, 158, 71–72, 74, 77, 78, 84–86, 90, 91, 126, 163, 165–167 130, 135, 142, 151, 154, 160, 164 Fantasy, 4, 39, 41, 118, 125–127, 132, Chicago Exposition of 1900, 97 142, 151, 155, 157 Clurman, Harold, 137, 141 Fatherhood, 3, 8, 18, 53, 54, 63, 65–69, Cohn, Ruby, 127, 128, 129 71, 75, 76, 79, 81, 83, 85–90, 121, Cold War, 21, 22, 27, 29–30 122, 131–133, 135, 138–139, 143, Communism, 13, 21, 31 145, 150, 155, 159, 166 Conwell, Russell, 43 Felt, Leah, 16 Couchman, Gordon W., 18 Felt, Theo, 16 Crane, Stephen, 36 Fitzgerald, F. Scott, 37, 135 Cronus, 121, 122 Feminism (in Marxism), 21, 31 The Crucible, 21, 32, 34, 39, 78, 105 Forsythe, Miss, 2, 11, 23, 30, 125 Cruz, Alex, 48, 49, 51 Francis, Miss, 2, 3, 9–10, 11 Cyclops, 121 Franz, Elizabeth, 18, 43 Franz, Esther, 16 Freud, Sigmund, 122 Def, Mos, 33 Friendship, 3, 4, 5, 11, 63, 65–66, Delusion, 27, 28, 89, 92, 137–138, 68–70, 78, 81, 85, 90, 121 141–145, 158 Despair, 13, 18, 21, 35, 70, 123, 132, 145, 150 Gaia, 121 Dialectics, 113, 114 Garden imagery, 51, 86, 96, 140–141, Dishonesty, 58, 80, 90, 124, 126, 131, 149, 156, 166 144, 146 Gauzy realism, 29, 105, 115 Dolan, Jill, 25 Gellburg, Sylvia, 16 Dreams, 7, 9, 12, 18, 28, 36–38, 40–41, Gender, 11, 13, 21–31, 41 43–46, 47–59, 66, 74, 75, 79, 81, Gibbs, Nancy, 47 83–84, 86, 88–89, 91, 102, 125, Ginsberg, Alan, 37 131–134, 143, 145, 151, 154–156, Glengarry Glen Ross, 13 158–160, 169 Great Depression, 42, 79, 81, 82 Dreiser, Theodore, 36 Greek mythology, 121, 123, 131 Dukore, Bernard, 71 Griffin, Alice, 78 Dunnock, Mildred, 16, 17 Grossman, Lev, 51, 52, 53 “The Dynamo and the Virgin,” 97 Gussow, Mel, 137, 145, 146

Hadomi, Leah, 145 Echoes Down the Corridor , 39, 44 Hamilton, Patricia, 16 The Education of Henry Adams , 97 Happiness, 2, 36, 49, 56, 61, 71, 76–77, Ellison, Ralph, 37, 44, 45 79, 81, 83, 89, 130, 132, 138, 140, Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 36, 37, 79 146, 151, 169 Empathy, 132, 142 Harshbarger, Karl, 12 Evans, Richard I., 92 Hawthorn, Jeremy, 138 Hayman, Ronald, 18, 87, 88 Failure, 4–10, 12–13, 17, 21, 25–26, Hecatoncheires, 121 28–29, 35–36, 38–42, 62, 64, 67–68, Hedda Gabler, 150 70, 76–77, 79–80, 81–88, 90–93, 95, Heller, Joseph, 45 98, 101, 108, 111, 114, 122–126, Herb, Jake, 48, 56