LOVE LETTERS ON BLUE PAPER
A good agnostic, Victor won’t trust in miracles. His delaying tactic is to work on his unpublished essay on art and democracy, the expression of a reformer’s reluctance to leave behind a messy, unfinished world. (Victor feels especially betrayed by what he sees as the English labor movement’s capitulation to management: “Capitalism has created an enemy in its own image, monstrous like its own.”) Inspired by his socialist hero, the Victorian art critic John Ruskin, Victor hopes this manuscript will be his valedictory, an 11th-hour offering to the botched world he has to leave,
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If Hollywood were to do Love Letters on Blue Paper, at the very end Victor and Sonia would suddenly pour out all the love the letters left unspoken. Arnold Wesker is too wise for that. When the end comes, Victor is with Maurice and Sonia happens to be at home–but no doubt certain that Victor knows she’s always with him even when she’s not.
