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A review by peeledwatermelon
A View from the Bridge / All My Sons by Arthur Miller
2.0
"Oh no, he'll come back. We all come back. These private little revolutions always die. The compromise is always made. In a peculiar way, Frank is right – every man does have a star. The star of one's honesty. And you spend your life groping for it, but once it's out it never lights again. I don't think he went very far. He probably just wanted to be alone to watch his star go out."
The book consists of two different plays – "A View from the Bridge", and "All My Sons". Both, revolve around the feeling of Pride, and the person you desire to present yourself as. There's this intricate sort of connection between the two, which is made rather clear when it's presented as one book. I'm not sure if it's clear enough for people to have acknowledged when the plays were actually performed – considering there was a decade-long gap between the two.
I'm not much of a play-reader, so it was a fresh experience for me, and while I enjoyed the conversationalist nature of the book, I didn't think its particularly interesting in the modern era. Quality-wise, there really isn't much negative to be said about it, though. Just a bit meh as an experience.
It's an easy read though – so not much to lose. I liked All My Sons quite a lot, and it has a lot of questions raised which you're expected to find an answer to yourself, and I quite like that personally.
2.5/5
The book consists of two different plays – "A View from the Bridge", and "All My Sons". Both, revolve around the feeling of Pride, and the person you desire to present yourself as. There's this intricate sort of connection between the two, which is made rather clear when it's presented as one book. I'm not sure if it's clear enough for people to have acknowledged when the plays were actually performed – considering there was a decade-long gap between the two.
I'm not much of a play-reader, so it was a fresh experience for me, and while I enjoyed the conversationalist nature of the book, I didn't think its particularly interesting in the modern era. Quality-wise, there really isn't much negative to be said about it, though. Just a bit meh as an experience.
It's an easy read though – so not much to lose. I liked All My Sons quite a lot, and it has a lot of questions raised which you're expected to find an answer to yourself, and I quite like that personally.
2.5/5