David? David mamet is a good example of an aspiring novelist?

No. However, there are still subtle differences.

Ma Mei's early and middle plays are worth learning by aspiring playwrights. In particular, I think his play Glengarry Glenn Ross is a crucial model for those who want to know the form of drama.

I think Glenn Ross, a gold digger, was commissioned by the National Theatre in London. Except Buffalo, most of Ma Mei's previous plays were melodramas: they had many scenes, and if there was anything wrong with them, it was that they often lacked drama. Bison is the main exception.

I read somewhere (sorry, I can't remember where) that harold pinter suggested that Ma Mei write something in a very limited space and time to bring the greatest dramatic effect. The result is Glenn Ross, with three acts in the first act and one act in the second.

This film won a Pulitzer Prize for Ma Mei, although all the actors in the original film were British actors and played American roles. Later plays, especially Marriage in Boston, have beautiful shapes. When I felt that Ma Mei was promoting some kind of political debate, I lost interest in him, which I think he often did in recent years.

On the other hand, Ma Mei's adventures in the field of novels have never been convincing. I haven't read his first novel The Village, but I heard it's very good. However, I don't think he really knows what he is doing as a novel writer. His novel Old Religion tells the story of Leo Frank's lynching, which is obviously from the heart, but the anger expressed in the form of a novel can move me more. His novel Wilson: Reflections on Sources in 2000 is a confusing joke about one thing or another, but I don't know what it is. I wrote this book as a person who read and appreciated James Joyce's Finnegan Wake.

I think an aspiring novelist can learn a lot about drama from reading Ma Mei's plays, but I don't think he can learn much from reading his novels.