A View from the Bridge by Arthur Miller.
A View from the Bridge by Arthur Miller. "You won't have a friend in the world. Even those who understand will turn against you, even the ones who feel the same will despise you." Miller's parents were immigrants. His father had a clothing manufacturing business and the family lived in prosperity in America until the Wall Street Crash. Miller became a journalist and he wrote scripts for the radio. During the second world war he worked as a shipfitter in the Brooklyn Navy Shipyard where he sets this drama. Many of the workers were Italian migrant workers and this is probably where Miller made connections for A View from the Bridge , 1955. Miller's hallmark as a writer seems to display an ability to dramatize the attempts made by characters to find a necessary balance between the conflicting demands of private and public life. New York's Brooklyn harbour was depicted as a dangerous and mysterious world at the water's edge during the 40s. T...