Abstract:This article examines the narrative and structural stasis that results from repeated infantilizing exchanges between parents and adult children sharing homes in the highly canonical mid-twentieth-century American plays Long Day's Journey Into Night, The Glass Menagerie, and Death of a Salesman. These moments of overparenting, which tend to focus on the adult children's bodies and health, educational and career choices, and language, are met with acts of resistance that in turn perpetuate a cycle of intergenera… Show more
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