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March 21, 2005
Arthur Miller’s Brooklyn Legacy
Brooklyn Rail
by Theodore Hamm
What imperils Brooklyn’s unique identity now is the same as what threatened it during [Willy Loman's] day: rampant overdevelopment. These days it’s stadiums, office towers, luxury high-rises, and big-box stores—a bland yet imposing vision, and in reality, a far from egalitarian one. Brooklyn, though, still has plenty of its own natural resources: its capacity to manufacture, its land, and its waterfront, and most of all, the underdeveloped talents of its working people. What Arthur Miller’s masterpiece reminds us is that in order to prevent the “deaths” of many more salesmen, Brooklyn needs to be its own borough.
Posted by lumi at March 21, 2005 7:48 AM