The Great God Brown | Characters
Dion Anthony
O’Neill introduces his protagonist, Dion Anthony, as ‘‘lean and wiry, without repose, continually in restless nervous movement.’’ When he first appears at the dock, Dion’s face is masked. The mask is a ‘‘fixed forcing of his own face—dark, spiritual, poetic, passionately supersensitive, helplessly unprotected in its childlike, religious faith in life—into the expression of a mocking, reckless, defiant, gaily scoffing and sensual young Pan.’’ The audience discovers later that Dion began wearing the mask after his friend Billy...
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