Desire Under the Elms (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Eugene O’Neill
- First Published: 1925
- Type of Work: Drama
- Type of Plot: Tragedy
- Time of Work: 1850
- Setting: A farmhouse in New England
- Principal Characters: Ephraim Cabot, Simeon, Peter, Eben, Abbie
- Genres: Drama
- Subjects: Parents and children
- Locales: New England
The Story:
When the news of gold discoveries in California reached New England, Simeon and Peter Cabot, who had spent their lives piling up stones to fence their father’s farm, became restless. In the summer of 1850 they were ready to tear down the fences that seemed to hem them in, to rebel against their close-fisted old father, and for once in their lives to be free. One day, Ephraim Cabot hitched up his rig and drove off, leaving the farm in charge of his three sons, Sim, Peter, and their younger half brother, Eben, all three of whom hated their father and saw him for what...
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