He might as well have gone ahead and given the characters their real names: Quentin is Miller whining endlessly about truth, Maggie is Marilyn Monroe as the "quite stupid, silly kid." And the later lover, calm Holga, is Miller's then wife, Ingeborg Morath, the only female in the play that Miller doesn't portray as impossible to please. It is self-serving and egotistical in monumental proportions. In between we see Quentin's first marriage end, the disintegration of his second marriage to a famous singer, and the fear he and his friends feel when the firm demands that someone names the former Communists among them.When I began reading this I was aware that Miller had caught a tremendous amount of heat for this play. He constantly flashbacks to his childhood to hear his parents bickering and flashes forward to listen to his current lover discuss her fear of Nazis. He has friends, a wife, daughter and a Communist past he is still trying to come to terms with. And that's the truth of roses, isn't it? - The perfume?” Read more You might see a rose, but never the perfume. Or can one ever remember love? It's like trying to summon up the smell of roses in a cellar. “I saw clearly only when I saw with love. Not an easy play to read, but very real look at the ways we can harm the people we love the most. Miller was working through his own marriage in this play, and that truthfulness adds a layer of depth that fiction often can’t reach. They are unhappy together because they can't trust each other.BOTTOM LINE: The play is so heartbreakingly raw and intimate. Their relationship is doomed from the start. She has a drinking and drug problem and is an obvious parallel for Marilyn Monroe. The second wife, Maggie, is incredibly troubled, insecure, and jealous. It chronicles the main character's life as her falls in love with a young woman, his marriage ends, and he gets remarried to the young woman who has now become an international star and sex symbol. It’s a painfully biographical piece, one that mirrors the playwright’s own life. Quentin, a lawyer, reflects on his two marriages and his current relationship through a running inner monologue throughout the play.
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