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In the following essay excerpt, Manheim discusses the episodic sequencing of Strange Interlude and the relation of each part’s themes and action to O’Neill’s own life.
In Strange Interlude, the emphasis shifts away from Jamie, though when one recalls the very distorted Jamie of Lazarus Laughed, it is quite possible he may appear in guises here still more difficult to recognize than in that play. The emphasis in Strange Interlude seems again primarily on O’Neill himself trying to cope with all the deaths around him and, as always, with that one awful shock of his adolescence, his mother’s addiction. Like so many others, the play explores his attempts to escape the pain associated with those events.
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