Miller returned to stage in 1964 after a nine-year absence with the play AFTER THE FALL, a strongly autobiographical work, which dealt with the questions of guilt and innocence. Many critics consider that Maggie, the self-destructive central character in the play, was modelled on Monroe, though Miller denied this. This is a powerful and moving study of a contemporary man struggling to come to terms with himself and his world by probing back into the revealing and often painful events of the past. Intertwining images of the past bring back the memories of inquisition when men were asked to name names of those who had joined with them in a communism that they mistook for a better future.
