The Symbolism Of Heaven In Ruby's Heaven By Arthur Miller

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Ruby’s heaven was a diner up in a spectacular range of mountains. Most of the people in the diner were injured in one way or another when Eddie looked in , Eddie’s father was one of these people he saw. The reason Ruby said the diner was her place in heaven because back in her olden days, it was simple and secure. If she hadn't been working there she would been working at the Seahorse Grille, then she wouldn’t have meet Emile, there would be no marriage, no pier, and Eddie wouldn’t have been working there, because the pier would not exist. Even though Ruby wished the pier never was built, she now takes all the ones injured in the pier, and they eat at the diner, her heaven. Ruby’s heaven is a diner because it was a time in her life where

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