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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.
You treat The Green Mile as if it's a humanist milestone on the order of To Kill a Mockingbird . But it has been more than a third of a century since Mockingbird 's Great White Father and that shambling, saintly black martyr who pays for the sex crimes of white men--and in-between came the civil-rights movement.
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.
The sole exception to this, I suppose, is the equally saintly TV-free Maureen Dowd.
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.