Salesman won every prize and brought Miller fame. But his success also intensified the estrangement from his wife, who found herself married to a public man who remained as remote as ever in private. What a pity that her voice is never heard in Mr. Bigsby’s book, which buries her in numerous quotations from Miller, a technique that sometimes make this biography seem like it comes from inside the playwright’s own head. Thus Mr. Bigsby quotes from Miller’s orotund autobiography, Timebends, to describe his subject’s adultery: “Cautiously at first, or so I fatuously thought, I let the mystery and blessing of womankind break like waves over my head once or twice, enough to shatter for me the last belief that social arrangements, including marriage, had something to do with inevitability.”

Можно ли перевести social arrangements как общественные институты? Или лучше как-то иначе?

Спасибо.