ABSTRACT
Pinter continued to concern himself with memory, the past, “the mist” in which things take place-the inability, however vigorously one tries, to make “any connection with a thing or person,” concluding: “To arrive at a lucid appreciation of what is taking place is impossible. Perhaps it can only be achieved through art. In life I don’t think it can be achieved.” (Kroll, 78) His work which best dramatizes that point, his screenplay for The French Lieutenant’s Woman, allows the only happy ending to occur between the lovers in the film within the film, in contrast to the two “real life” actors playing those characters who part in the end.
