The Iceman and the Bridegroom
1958; University of Toronto Press; Volume: 1; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês
10.3138/md.1.1.3
ISSN1712-5286
Autores Tópico(s)Cultural Studies and Interdisciplinary Research
ResumoThe Iceman Cometh is a play about the death of a salesman; its central theme is the relationship between men's illusions and their will to live. The salesman, Theodore Hickman, or Hickey, as he is called, is a more complex character than Arthur Miller's Willie Loman, and O'Neill's diagnosis of the spiritual malaise of the twentieth century is more profound than Miller's. Loman is depicted from the outside: he is the victim of a false and wholly external conception of what constitutes success. He wants, in a worldly sense, to solve the riddle of life, but the questions be asks are superficial
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