SOURCE: Radavich, David. “War of the Wests: Saroyan's Dramatic Landscape.” American Drama 9, no. 2 (spring 2000): 29-49.
In the following essay, Radavich proposes that Saroyan's plays are reflective of the conflicts inherent in the inspiration for his dramatic landscape—the American West—and that they echo this tension by presenting characters that navigate between the romance and ideals and the unforgiving nature of reality and cultural conflict in the West.
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