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...young Englishwoman who urges her penniless lover to start a flirtation with an ailing American heiress, hoping that the heiress, who is compared in the story to a dove, will soon die and leave him rich and free. In stripping the story to the operatic bone, Moore and Librettist Ethan Aver changed the name of the scheming suitor from Merton Densher to Miles Dunster (because, says Moore, ''the name Densher could not be enunciated today without a ribald response"), and they gave the opera an extra twist by making Densher announce, after the death of the heiress, that...
...Pont company reported that now it always looks for shows that are not "sad and distressful,'' since experience had taught them that listener reaction was more favorable to fey shows like Harvey than to such other Du Pont productions as Ethan Frome and Hamlet, Prince of Denmark...
Totems of Status. The book's hero, Ethan Allen Hawley, is a decent sort who loves his wife, has two teen-aged children and seems affably adjusted to failure. He clerks in a grocery store that he once owned for a Sicilian-born boss named Marullo. However, Ethan is haunted by totems of past status. The sleepy Long Island port of New Baytown in which he lives was once virtually the fief of his whaling-captain forebears. He carries one such captain's narwhal stick and lives in his great-grandfather's white shiplap house with...
Almost black-magically, Ethan's luck and character (but not his dialogue) do begin to change. He discovers that his boss Marullo entered the U.S. illegally, and he tips off the immigration authorities. The unsuspecting Marullo, who admires Ethan for his loyalty, gives him the store before he is deported. Author Steinbeck has other heavy ironies to put in the moral fire, and at book's end, Ethan owns the world of New Baytown but he has, of course, lost his own soul. How does he learn that? He discovers that his son has cribbed from the speeches...
...material of the prose. In Steinbeck's naively symbolic handling, the world of money and business is reduced to a branch of witchcraft, thus vitiating any valid point that Steinbeck might have hoped to make about the state of U.S. ethics. Asked to define business at one point, Ethan calls it "everybody's crime." The guilt for this novel is somewhat easier to localize...