damage her "love" for Larry is doing to Chris and to herself and others as well in lesser ways.
In Miller's autobiography, Timebends, he writes about a stage designer in the first production of All My Sons who saw the Keller backyard in which the play takes place as a graveyard. When Miller questioned him about the small rise in the grass of the yard, which was to represent the grave itself, the designer said:
You have written a graveyard play, and not some factual report. The play is taking place in a cemetery where their son is buried, and he is also their buried conscience reaching up to them out of the earth. even if [the grave] inconveniences [the actors] it will keep reminding them what the hell all this acting is really about. The bump stays! (Miller
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