The Iceman Cometh Questions and Answers
The Iceman Cometh
To what extent is Eugene O'Neill's The Iceman Cometh autobiographical?
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...
The Iceman Cometh
What does Eugene O'Neill mean to say about dreams in the play? I'm wondering if he's referencing the dreams of his...
O'Neill is making a universal point about dreams and the power they have over us. It's not just the regular habitués of Harry Hope's saloon who dream their lives away; many of us in the world...
The Iceman Cometh
Where do you feel that there is a "breakdown in communication" in The Iceman Cometh? Required for an essay to be...
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...