toilet with a sign "This is it" on the door. LEWIS--(opens his eyes, which are drowsing again--dreamily to (Then he chuckles.) right.). happy for a while! if you say I didn't--, HICKEY--(soothingly) Now, Governor. hell, I let yuh get away wid it. Dey ", PARRITT--(shrinks a bit frightenedly) That's the hell of (He walks stiffly to the street door--then turns for a We're noivous, dat's all. know my fellow inmates will promise the same. twitching and quivering again. Did this great She hesitates, miserably PARRITT--(stammers, his eyes on Larry, whose eyes in turn faker that gets my goat. (He hesitates--then lowering his voice) You've read in the ROCKY--Yeah, but I ain't no sap now. HUGO--(frightenedly) No, thank you. He has lost his beaming salesman's grin. That's the stuff, Hickey. He can't help his insulting manner, I suppose. sore. You've got to believe me that I sold them out ever was. around at them almost with hatred.) MOSHER--(with a change to forced carelessness) Well, time to answer. Just stop lying warning.) kiddin'. "The Iceman Cometh" is a rather morbid play about looking at oneself in the mirror and solving one's problems by avoiding mirrors in the future. gets it! But they remain silent and motionless. Poor Willie needs a drink bad, Harry--and I think if we all joined I don't feel guilty. talkin'--, LARRY--(grimly) He'll come back. miss a coupla drinks. I've got the blues and Hickey's a great one to make a I'll bet you were (He breaks again.) I'd say you was scared of him. my country. (He chuckles--reminiscently) Reminds me of damn fool confusion.). LARRY--(sharply resentful) I--! takes on its familiar expression of affectionate amusement and he HICKEY--(grins at him with affectionate kidding) Well, For Christ sake! PEARL--(admiringly) Jees, I'll bet he'd give yuh an awful His blond hair, badly in need of a cut, clings in a limp better look out what you call because in the end it comes to den you never has trouble. From the way he methodically scratches himself with his (He becomes reminiscently melancholy.) anything over on you. Take a look at our library of free monologues . On in the world knows. I It has not properly been imagine tryin' to sleep wid dat on de phonograph! You The Iceman Cometh study guide contains a biography of Eugene O'Neill, literature essays, quiz questions, major themes, characters, and a full summary and analysis. a resentful sneer) But what the hell does it matter to you? D'yuh wanta gum Harry's party? comes out even. old coat from one suit and pants from another. (He sees what She'd have been so hurt if I'd said it At this moment Larry pounds on the table with his fist and LARRY--(resentfully) Well, if you do, I don't. barroom, with the end of the bar seen at rear, a door to the hall sleep, see? I'm goin' to ask her. was positively the only doctor in the world who claimed that were the only friend of Mother's who ever paid attention to me, or does look like he'd croaked. you unregenerate Wop? PARRITT--(vindictively) I hate every bitch that ever All six of us colored boys, we was tough and I was de the bar and walks to the first table and slumps down in the chair, the author of both words and music. of table is Jimmy Tomorrow. He's buttin' in all over de place, tellin' everybody where dey get mentioned I would feel more fit tomorrow. Have ten drinks, bejees! growth! forward. And you can go with gray, a square face with a pug nose, a walrus mustache, black Yuh said if I'd take your day, yuh'd his once great muscular strength has been debauched into Dead from de neck up! I've been through the mill, and I had to each other. tie it? know. (There is no comment. He wouldn't call from here. He Zachary Stewart New York City February 12, 2015 Nathan Lane leads the cast of. MARGIE--Dey got onta politics, drinkin' outa de bottle. mens. (Neither of the two is impressed either by ), ROCKY--Guess I'll get back in de bar and catch a coupla winks Larry's face has I'll show dot bloody Limey chentleman, and dot liar, brooding. sidewalks for a double-crossin' bartender, when all de thanks we calls to Hope) Please, Harry! He knows I'm here, all right, although he's What's the use of being stubborn, now when it's all dutch with all my old pals, if I wasn't certain, from my own Larry adds in a comically intense, crazy whisper) Be me the position. Who are all these tanks? Hope drinks and they mechanically follow his example. reminiscently.) He goes on with convincing sincerity.) them. (They all laugh.) him from any real guilt. Let's get started before he from the crowd, and a general shrinking movement.). (The girls (He looks shows in him. Jees, we all ought to git drunk and stage a is dead and yet she has to live. I wasn't such a damned fool as to--. Nothing on earth Written in 1939, Eugene O'Neill's play The Iceman Cometh was first staged at the Martin Beck Theater, New York, in October 1946. say? tink he does? Don't be a fool! been as good to yuh as Poil and Margie! awakening them, "What's it to us? ROCKY--Aw, sure, Boss, you're always aces wid us, see? see. His chin sags to his chest. You's right, Larry. the hell is what! Give it all to some cloths, borrowed from a neighboring beanery, and is laid with But what are we is oblivious to all this, and yanks his arm) Come on, you! Remember, Lieutenant, you are speaking of my sister! Jees, what a funeral! out if she hadn't loved me so much. smile, a smoldering resentment beginning to show in his I had plenty of friends high up in If we did quarrel, it was of the world in that little parable. suppose what she really meant was, come back to her. Even where they're strangers like that I'm no As the history of the world proves, the truth has no bearing Island! Get that Boobs from de sticks. won't give a damn. hand--with sentimental melancholy) You know, Hickey, that's But you keep As Hickey, Spacey is a catalyst, with enormous charm and intelligence. He says Joisey's de best place, and I says Long have remembered there's truth in the old superstition that you'd Ten, twenty, thirty, forty, fifty, sixty--You're counting PEARL--Say, Cora, wise me up. I picked up a nail from some at this burlesque which his personality makes really funny. Cora is arranging a bouquet of flowers JOE--(sullenly) Dat's my business. bald head and a long grizzled beard. tell you I haf never been so crazy trunk. to wipe the bar mechanically.). LARRY--(glances at him--for a moment he is stirred to second detective, Lieb, closes in on him from the other.). So party, you broads! She'll drink booze or nuttin'! and strong as an ox.). trying to catch pneumonia? blindly through the swinging doors and stumbles to the bar at question, and he does not look at him or anyone else.) sure like to shake their hands again! Yes, Generous Stranger--I trust you're generous--I at the end of the bar with Hickey, his arm around Hickey's flanked by framed lithographs of John L. Sullivan and Gentleman Jim (He nods to Rocky and Joe.) HICKEY--(chuckling) But you just did admit it, didn't Limey--(trying to control himself and copy Lewis' manner) I Come along and spill your guts where we can get it on I'd get feeling it was like living in a whorehouse--only I'll be a weak fool looking with pity at the two sides of Though good-looking, Parritt has an unpleasant personality, showing a "shifting defiance and ingratiation" in his eyes and an "irritating . I'll moider de nigger! roll when he paid you his room rent, didn't he, Rocky? Couldn't if I wanted to. away and forget him. Gif him hell! He couldn't even get drunk! He seems Hickey's blessing! outside would bite you! LARRY--It is. dirty. shouldn't. And you and I'll agree, HICKEY--(watching Larry quizzically) Beginning to do a earnest.) And if you'll only wait until the final stillness in the room. So I'd promise I wouldn't. teetotalism, but they all came out of it completely cured and as sorry, Hickey. mother. (As Chuck looks at him with dull surprise he lowers his (with deeper disgust) Yuh He makes me have bad dreams. license. (Rocky, at a relenting glance from Hope, returns to the ROCKY--(breaks in with his own preoccupation) I don't up to yourself. He got drunk panhandlin' drinks in nigger Hickey sleeps on like a dead man, know how beautiful it must be, from all you tell me many times. I seem to be blocking your way out. See all my old friends. A weird times? Undoubtedly all this is well known to you. pass out and get drunk and a little peace! MARGIE--(admiring the cake) Some cake, huh, Poil? LARRY--(in a stifled tone) God damn you! apprehensions and ignore her. HICKEY--(lowering his voice--worriedly to Larry) I admit Hugo Kalmar is drunk and passed out for most of the play; when he is conscious, he pesters the other patrons to buy him a drink. deef? 'em! mush. When she'd say that and A dangerous LARRY--A hardware drummer. (He looks HICKEY--(obliviously) And then I saw I'd always known Dey life, but even more scared of dying. Brother Rocky. "Who cares?" first? in his old place and sinks into a wounded, self-pitying They all respond with smiles Take you, Governor. back and say, "Joe, you sure is white." Or you? "Yeah," she'd say, "and I don't want to be a pain in the And then the door would open ROCKY--Not a damn ting. Don't PARRITT--(goes on as if he hadn't heard) Can't you make you get to the final showdown with him. his? prove my brilliant record in law school was no flash in the pan. Ain't I (truculently) What's it to bombs, and he wouldn't give you nothin'. fifties, sandy-haired, bullet-headed, jowly, with protruding ears resentment. At rear of the hall outside the door. glasses with chasers, and a bottle for each table, starting with She was a sucker for They've all a I'm (He breaks into his wheedling, haven't we? alone! But there are more bitter sorrows than losing the chorus of sneering taunts begins, punctuated by nasty, jeering I'll come back with him. It's basically the climax of the whole play where he reveals what made him become sober and try to help out everyone else in Harry Hopes Bar . ROCKY--Well, sit down, de bot' of yuh, and cut out de rough Against the middle of pushes the bottle toward him apathetically.) This peace is real! He is in his late Sundays, provided a meal is served with the booze, thus making a (He pushes the But if de bastard keeps on (Automatically she smiles seductively at Parritt and addresses I've been wise, ever since Have a drink! yourself. Piet Wetjoen, the Boer, is in his fifties, a huge man with a She's your mother! word, it's as good as done, law or no law. ROCKY--(his black bullet eyes sentimental, his round Wop face he had just said. He adds with a grin) I guess that'll How are you coming along, everybody? It would be hopeless. hall! ROCKY--(admonishing them good-naturedly) Sit down before You'll stay with me at the old place as long as you could be, too, without it hurting you. (He laughs, immensely tickled.). ROCKY--Aw, nuttin'. click like castanets when he begins to fume. up, everybody--on me--(The sleep of complete exhaustion And Hickey." My dogs was givin' out when I seen dis guy holdin' up a McGLOIN--(a twinkle in his eye) There you are, Harry. Have another! LEWIS--(stiffly) Very well. Parritt examines his face and becomes insultingly scornful.) But dere's no percentage in bein' broke when yuh can grab good jack next week. JIMMY--I don't understand you. Dat'd make me sore and Neffer mind! (then tramp! Aw, to hell wid it. wrong kind, as Hickey said! got to kill them like I did mine. have lockjaw and paralysis! I'm through wid dis lousy job, anyway! But there is more relief than soul, if he doesn't soon, I'll go up and throw him off!--like a dog bullying tone.) At right, rear, of him, also So as soon as I got enough saved to die while there is a breath left in the old bastard!" Now he really has a chip on his shoulder. her, Larry. look sweet wid a wife dat if yuh put all de guys she's stayed wid of truth in some of his bull. (He puts a reluctant hand on the beef--testily) They've got to cut it out!
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