Women of the West – Miller’s mercurial role as madam, mother, and master builder of this town jangles with her isolating self-medication, a double-nature that, like McCabe’s, makes her both central to and distant from the rest of Presbyterian Church. But unlike McCabe, whose story ends in a more cowardly, more haphazard variation of the usual final showdown, Miller has no generic hero narrative to fall into. She is a denizen of the world of fallen womanhood, like one of Leonard Cohen’s traveling ladies: running for the money and the flesh; desired, desirous, and far from reach.