An Arthur Miller play " A View From the Bridge " was inspired by a story of immigrant betrayal . A New York Times excerpt :
" An Italian-American longshoreman had turned in to authorities two illegal immigrants, relatives he had been sheltering in his home, in order to stop one of them from marrying his niece. Having violated an unwritten proscription against informing, he was disgraced and later disappeared — possibly, as rumor had it, murdered by one of the men he had betrayed. "
At the time Arthur Miller was more courageous voice against cold war McCarthyism . And his " Death of Salesman " had an anti-capitalist theme. How many lower middle class male " failures " can still identify with Miller's creation Willy Loman today ?
A thought inspired by " The Crucible " : when does ratting on your neighbor become a crime against humanity ? How much " dime dropping " on illegal immigrants has an ulterior motive well beyond scoundrel time good citizenship ?
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