AMS critics Flashcards
Chris - ‘phoney
Idealism’
Chris - ‘seems to quietly
abandon his own rhetoric’
Chris - “level of…
… awareness coincides with the audience”
Kate - ‘carries the
authority in the house’
Kate - ‘myopic
innocence’
Keller- ‘knows he is guilty but
has to preserve the idea of his own innocence’
Keller - ‘the language of material success
blocks out the language of guilt’
Keller - ‘is banal,
but he is not evil’
Keller - ‘no man is
an island entire of himself’
Ann - ‘signifies
public acknowledgement of Larry’s death’
Past on present - ‘the past continually
intrudes upon the present’
Setting - ‘undisturbed
normality’
Change - ‘change was
a birthright’
Structure- “the story of..
…how the birds came home to roost”
Keller - “a survivor who…
…no longer desires to survive is something other than a tragic figure”
