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How did this ardent puritan reconcile her contradictions? It is the one question neglected by the conscientious Miller, a Marquette historian who got to know Day while writing a study of the Catholic Worker movement. He owes himself and his reader a hypothesis instead of the oddly sad tension he leaves in the air surrounding the halo of his admirable overachiever. We feel her humanitarianism for ourselves. Her ecstasy (religious or otherwise) we have to take Miller's word for. Was she ever quite at ease with herself—her selves?
"It was the duty of a saint to be happy," she concluded. That may be the one duty she shirked. —ByMelvinMaddocks