A Moon for the Misbegotten (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Eugene O’Neill
- First Published: 1952
- Type of Work: Play
- Type of Plot: Psychological realism
- Time of Work: September, 1923
- Setting: Connecticut
- Genres: Drama, Psychological drama, Autobiographical drama
- Subjects: North America or North Americans, Northeast, U.S., Self-discovery, United States or Americans, Acting or actors, Memory, Parents and children, Sex or sexuality, Guilt, Yards or backyards, 1920’s, New England, Alcoholism or alcoholics, Substance abuse, Connecticut
- Locales: Connecticut
Characters Discussed
Mike Hogan, the last of three brothers at home; he is twenty years old. As the play opens, his only sister, Josie, helps him to leave home behind the back of their father, who has treated his sons like slaves, though he has not been able to treat Josie like one.
Josie Hogan, who is much older than Mike, a very tall, muscular woman who has cultivated the reputation of being blatantly immoral and sexually involved with many men, but who is in fact a virgin who has acted thus because her appearance humiliates her and makes her believe that she can never...
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