The play's kernel is in its old man's contrast between two trees, the bare one stripped of what he revealingly calls "fat, greasy life" and the same tree seen after he has stabbed his boy to death, a tree "all cold, sweet, glistening light." The contrast does not work; it is the same tree, and therefore the same man, incapable of release引自 purgatory（1939）
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