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The Ride Down Mt. Morgan is a play by Arthur Miller. The play's central character is Lyman Felt, an...

The Ride Down Mt. Morgan is a play by Arthur Miller. The play's central character is Lyman Felt, an insurance agent and bigamist who maintains families in New York City and Elmira in upstate New York. Lost in narcissistic self-absorption, Felt is wealthy, greedy, and selfish, and so afraid of his own death he is insensitive to the repercussions of his actions on the emotions of those he claims to love. His worst fear is realized when he is hospitalized following a nearly fatal car crash on an icy mountain road and both wives - a prim and proper Presbyterian to whom he's been wed for more than thirty years and the younger, freewheeling woman, Jewish like himself, who he married nine years earlier - show up at his bedside. Unrepentant, he refuses to accept responsibility for his actions because, as he continually explains, each of them has had a better life with him than they would have had without him. Now aware of his duplicity, the women are forced to reappraise their relationship with him and decide if they want to continue living in a marriage built on lies. Through Felt, Miller presents the supposition that monogamy is an unnatural and unattainable state imposed on men by rigid