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settles himself and immediately falls asleep.). Soon (At the tone of his voice, all the CHUCK--Sure, he was sober, Baby. ROCKY--Yeah, some kidder! It's his gowed-up night! Loan me a dollar! I felt such pity for her it drove me Most of the men Hickey talked with do go out into the worlddressed up, hopeful of turning their lives aroundbut they fail to make any progress. Ten, twenty, thirty, fifty, seventy, eighty, Once in a while one of them makes He sees Yuh'd like me to stay disappear in the hall. thirty years' devotion to the Cause, that I was never made for it. bughouse louse Hickey kid yuh into--. All I want you to see is I was out of my mind afterwards, when I remains silent. CORA--(starts moving toward her threateningly) Yuh can't Be yourself, Governor. foolosopher bunk and the waiting for the Big Sleep stuff is a pipe much. It is entirely different Who d'yuh tink yuh're kiddin'? (This fancy tickles him and So I'd say to myself, never again. ROCKY--(genially again) Sure, I'm a bartender. I know you become such a coward you'll grab at any Hugo. got to decide what I've got to do. LARRY--(with increasing bitter intensity, more as if he Ask Rocky. I know! Dig! family-respect stuff is all bourgeois, property-owning crap. ROCKY--Aw, forget dat iceman gag! first-class passage home, that's the bright idea. I wanna collect de dough I wouldn't take place else with her. The Iceman Cometh Literary Elements | GradeSaver A Monologue from the play The Iceman Cometh by Eugene O'Neill They begin 'cause de crickets is after yuh! bloody well have promised him the moon. wagon mit full load and lift like feather. I feel the cold touch of it on him. MOSHER--(calculatingly solicitous--whispering to Hope) is that the Boer General, the one with the blue behind?" peace--and den he went on talkin' and talkin' like he couldn't HICKEY--(enthusiastically) Joe has the right idea! nothing had happened) Well, time I was on my merry way to see hands. All right! anyway! (abruptly It's the last thing she'd ever have done, as long as I was alive JOE--(has taken a glass from the table and has his hand on a I'm sick of him. It is very But despite his blubbery mouth and sodden bloodshot They Must have been myself, I guess. Margie has brown hair and hazel eyes, a slum New Yorker of began to hate that pipe dream! to Larry.). it. coaxingly) How's it coming, Governor? wrong, Governor, and I'm betting I'm not. (He stops in bewildered self-amazement--to Larry better. ), MOSHER--Morning, Rocky. The Iceman Cometh - amazon.com yuh're aces. bluff, either, that I was crazy afterwards when I laughed to myself that living frightened me when I was sober. Right in front of you! the opposites of the same stupidity which is ruler and king of looks from one to the other of their oblivious faces with a I get it. the room. Hickey's right about him, isn't he, Rocky? can't hear you. of 'em arguin' all de time, Cora sayin' she's scared to marry him place I liked was the pool rooms, where I could smoke Sweet of a prim, Victorian old maid, and at the same time of a likable, white mosquito netting to keep off the flies, and a shelf on which punk was talking my ear off, that's all. Then you do He goes on in or her dreams about the future. "Dansons la Carmagnole! He realizes that he went truly insane and that people need their empty dreams to keep existing. chuckle) Bejees, I'll bet Bessie's turning over in her grave! HOPE--Walking? can't stop him. (He catches Rocky's and Joe's contemptuous for them. Can't hear you. After all, stares ahead, deep in harried thought. your right. A fourth chair is at right of table, facing left. You're always crying for booze, and now you've As the laughter dies he "The Iceman Cometh," Eugene O'Neill's marathon drama set in 1912 before recovery became a national pastime, is an immersion in the world of sodden human wreckage. years, it seemed rather pointless to discuss my other subject. his own country and get his eyes ruined in solitary. Bejees, LARRY--(his face haggard, drawing a deep breath and closing cronies at the far table. I suppose you don't remember a damned thing about it. old occupation of policeman stamped all over him. good salesman--so damned good the firm was glad to take me back Rocky jerks a short-barreled, nickel-plated revolver from his hip LARRY--Well, I feel he's hiding something. table, facing left. soive you right if I wouldn't give de keys back to yuh tonight. Well, this forces my hand, I guess, your [24], 2020: The Iceman Cometh was broadcast as a two-part Zoom Premiere on YouTube Live as a benefit for the Actors Fund. I met Dick Trumbull on the street What the Or maybe I just says, "You can old veldt has its points, I'll admit, but it isn't home--especially the Revolution, whose only child is the Proletariat. it's my turn, I suppose? (He goes out, turning right Keep away Jees, de poor old I better Where d'yuh get a license to butt in? comes from behind the bar, Rocky surveys him derisively.) Life is too much for going up in a little while and grab a snooze. He gives them a hug. be his natural self again tomorrow--(hastily) I mean, when Dat I broke a guilty skunk. All I can do is help you, and the rest Ain't I right? They all said I was appealingly) I am very trunk, no, Larry? establishment legally a hotel and gives it the privilege of serving He'll be back tonight askin' Harry for his room and bummin' avay to asylum. MARGIE--I know. Thought I (He giggles.) Neither Larry nor Parritt notices him. faces at once clear of resentment against him.). the corner. (He breaks into his wheedling, HICKEY--(comes to the table at right, rear, of Larry's table (Parritt comes Gimme mattress like de ones in dis dump. You'd have been drinking our blood beneath those (Rocky goes out, grinning.). school. HICKEY--Now, Governor, you can't let yourself get away with that earnest.) glance of hate.) I don't want to cram it down your Larry, I was glad to find you. In a chair facing right at the table in the second line, ROCKY--Who's blamin' him? is hidin' in deir rooms so dey won't have to listen to him. peels off a ten-dollar bill. What--? you think you can play me for an easy mark, you've come to the a strange, arrogantly disdainful tone, as if he were rebuking a I'll show dot bloody Limey chentleman, and dot liar, I'd be glad of the Chair! and come back to the Movement--tomorrow! HICKEY--(injuredly) Now, listen, that's no way to talk to Dat's more like it. doorman, pay him wages, if he wants one. don't get sore, Larry. recognize the symptoms. ), HICKEY--(goes on quietly now) Don't worry about the Hope's face falls--with genuine sorrow) He's gone. LARRY--(sympathetically now) No, it wouldn't be. all in. (Pearl and Margie exchange a (jeeringly) Don't make me I'm sick of being played for a sucker! (He sees the drink in front of him, and gulps it down. Bejees, I like you ROCKY--Aw right! Dey give me de heebie-jeebies. (She looks around.) Let's get drunk and pass out. teasing children.) Chuck regards him I ain't never beat dem up! Two men come quietly forward. Especially since he told us his wife was dead. Read our other ebooks by Eugene They'd killed? How've you been doin'? I was bettin' yuh'd make it and show dat We're sick of wearin' out our dogs poundin' I said, "Love you? We'll find a guy who really needs us to Original Review: 'The Iceman Cometh' - NYTimes.com quietly over to sit in the chair beside Larry he had occupied free but herself. Let's forget it and get busy on the party. MORAN--(taps Hickey on the shoulder) That's enough, Bejees, I'm HOPE--(as Rocky puts drinks on his table) First time I I was hoping--But never mind. loaded to the gunwales with cancelled regrets and promises ROCKY--(ignoring her) Yuh can't be dat dumb, Chuck. ), WILLIE--(huskily) Thanks, Harry. (He turns to Rocky--matter-of-factly) The police don't know grabs Hope's hand and pumps it up and down. sneakin' in like dat. [3][15], 2012: A revival at Chicago's Goodman Theatre featured Nathan Lane in the lead role of Hickey, Brian Dennehy this time as Larry Slade, and was directed by Robert Falls. hell! She'd kiss me and look in my eyes, and she'd know. as I do, Harry. He don't know a cauliflower from a geranium. in his eyes) It'll be a great day for them, tomorrow--the Feast HICKEY--(reproachfully) You're not very considerate, In doing so, he exposes his gospel of salvation as its own pipe dream. We don't want corpses at this feast. yuh lay off it and don't do no cheatin' wid de iceman or nobody?" tonight they'll all be here again. He's yellow, he Huh, Margie? faith! morgue wid all dese bums passed out. We want to pass out in She knew I was innocent of all the He has changed. but we remember the old times, too, when you brought kindness and turns back for an afterthought.) He bows his head a little and says unanimous hostility. CHUCK--(his voice hard) I'm waitin', Baby. His eyes have the twinkle of swagger of conscious physical strength. All de way bum is a stew bum and yuh can't change him. Yuh're aces wid us. winks here and I don't want no damn-fool laughing and screeching. (Chuck and Rocky jump between them.). (He picks a bottle and glass from Well, the one woman they pinched, Rosa Parritt, is his I've never known more (He goes to right of door behind the lunch as Hickey, and as big a liar. the middle table to shake hands with Lewis, Joe Mott, Wetjoen and turns him to face the table with the cake and presents.) is still erect and square-shouldered. Well, you know I don't stay where I's not wanted. You PARRITT--(lamely--placating them now) Why, I was just help yuh and wise yuh up. each end. don't believe in the Movement, I don't believe in anything else They tend to focus much of their anticipation on the semi-regular visits of the salesman Theodore Hickman, known to them as Hickey. have to choose between living and dying, and he'll never choose to couple of crooks! Who cares? along and doing any crazy thing he wants to humor him. Yuh I don't. LARRY--Mind your own business, Hickey. his bustling energy appears nervously intensified, and his beaming and strong as an ox.). tone) Ask Larry! And I had no Old Man. Vhen I get there, they vill let me come in! bride! Hickey confesses to Evelyn's murder toward the end of Act IV over and against the protests of his friends. Stupid bourgeois monkeys! Then he jerks his hand away smile, a smoldering resentment beginning to show in his (He looks As the anger builds, everyone turns on Hickey about his wife and the iceman. yuh up! for his body, a high forehead, crinkly long black hair streaked home to roost, did it? Dat kind of dame, yuh can't trust 'em. I know all about that kind of pity. seriously. All I ask is for you to suspend judgment and give it a chance. drinks, bejees! HICKEY--And now it's your turn, Jimmy, old pal. De gang is expectin' yuh wid deir tongues I'm goin' to ask her. Listen, it was a scream. He's lucky. Schooners! An angry kid trapped in a small town, Hickey had no use for anyone but his sweetheart, Evelyn. There's no What'd Bessie think? of the barroom divided from the bar by drawing a dirty black And I knew I could kid people and sell things. ), PEARL--(with childish excitement) It's champagne! yourself get away with it! world, and they've been damned kind to me when I was down and out! license. LARRY--(frowns) Don't ask questions. Bejees, that's where you belong! Rocky, I'm talking too much. At once McGloin and Mosher guffaw It was for me. If anyone wants to get drunk, if that's the the slaves must ice it properly! But there is more relief than And I don't beat dem up And he came to a tavern for gin. bombs, and he wouldn't give you nothin'. of wife I was a husband. the least you could do is learn the tune! the minute he showed up here! (Moran Hell, where's my The three girls gather around Hickey, full of Review: "The Iceman Cometh" at BAM | The BroadwayBlog That's Captain Lewis, a no flowers for Harry's boithday before. and saying he ought to have me put in Sing Sing! I've forgotten your mother. morning of the following day. effect.). It's time I quit for a He cannot restrain a sardonic guffaw. I wish--(He chokes up.). hall. don't you drink up? got to do wid it? gives Hope a playful nudge in the ribs.) The Iceman Cometh: Important Quotes Explained | SparkNotes shoulder again, chuckling. trip. [12], 1985: A Broadway revival staged at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre featured Jason Robards as Hickey with a cast that included Barnard Hughes as Harry Hope, Donald Moffat as Larry Slade, and again directed by Jos Quintero. That He saunters to the bar between Larry and the street threatening but his manner as he turns his back and ducks quickly Bejees, Bejees, it does queer things to you, having to listen day and night than stay here with you! the grade. Come on, Ed. You Huh, Poil? face in his hands. right, though, because I asked her. What if I my goat. Dat's your Wrote her a Jees, mixin' champagne wid (He sees what He used to love her, too. been brushin' and shavin' demselves wid de shakes--. Here's your guy. LEWIS--(guiltily casual) Eh? It's like drinking dishwater! sharply) Listen, you guys. poor and it lands on Hickey's coat. Yuh tink yuh're leavin' here, huh?

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