Word: carraway
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...others-a figure at the drama's core for whom the author has deep sympathy, but to whom nothing happens. In Sun he is a crippled doctor who sees the disintegration of a neighboring family. He is a novelist's device, like Fitzgerald's Nick Carraway in The Great Gatsby, the reporter Jim Malloy, O'Hara's man-on-the-sidelines in Butter field 8 and Sermons and Soda-Water. In the tighter structure of a play, he is cumbrous and distracting...