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An answer is, as above, that Slate doesn't want to be dependent on the charity of any rich person, even one as saintly and magnificent as our employer.
First, Virginia's mysterious and saintly mother broke under the strain of Victorian women's work--nursing invalids, running a staff of servants--though the immediate cause of death was rheumatic fever.
They're either saintly, maternal figures (Kate Keller in All My Sons , Linda Loman in Death of a Salesman , Elizabeth Proctor in The Crucible ) or destructive temptresses (Abigail Williams in The Crucible , Catherine in A View From the Bridge , Maggie in After the Fall ). The lack of interest in women's minds is another thing that dates Miller and makes even his more recent plays seem like period pieces.
As one old pal of hers told me, "There is a kind of worldly-wise woman in there--this has been lost in all the saintly religious stuff.
Currie may not be Flytrap's chief malefactor, but nor is she the saintly innocent that the American public believes her to be.