The Iceman Cometh Questions and Answers

The setting of the play, Harry Hope's saloon, was taken from O'Neill's own attendance of Jimmy-the-Priest's saloon and rooming house in the early 1910s. O'Neill wrote the play in the last years of...

Eugene’s commentary about the elusive and illusive nature of dreams applies to his characters and people in real life. In the play, the idea of the American dream is presented as a paradoxical...

It begins in Act 2, Part 1 when the illusions of the characters begin to erode. They're coming face to face with truths that their pipe dreams and their alcoholism has prevented them from...