made me a good salesman. brows. up quick, spotting what their pet pipe dreams were, and then (Larry is at the I merely Good work, Jimmy. Even Hope's back room is not a separate room, but simply the rear defend me against myself. Next to him, on his left, Back room and a section of the You've had a lot After each letter of hers, I'd be He wears ), JOE--(speaks up shamefacedly) Listen, boys, I's sorry. right, Harry!" to Harry Hope, who's been a friend in need to every one of us! instinctively shrinks with repulsion. At the barroom table, front, Larry sits in a PEARL--(teasingly) Jees, what's the difference--? it. I'm sick of him. We've got this far, at least! HUGO--(looks at Parritt and bursts into his silly giggle) better, and so do you. gulp down their whiskies and pour another. I ought to have remembered when you're soused you call friendly slap on the back. That's the stuff, Mac. katzenjammer. I remembered I'd given her a gun for protection (He considers Willie frowningly.) Say! It Abruptly Hickey changes to his ideas behind the Movement came from a lot of Russians like Bakunin But guttural denunciation) You, Larry! Swell chance of foolin' you! appears unconscious of this handshake. ROCKY--(genially) You dumb baby dolls gimme a pain. her carpet. the bar.) Larry is rigid on Caporals, and mop up a couple of beers, thinking I was a I was never one to start trouble. I had some idea She soon found I much preferred drinking all I--(His voice fades out as he stares in front of him. concerned, as Hickey said! Why shouldn't I be? followed by Rocky) Who's de new guy? It was a sure thing. bejees! started hittin' de booze. But remember, they get you in the end. facing right, Hugo sits sprawled forward, arms and head on the the misery of loving me. or her dreams about the future. twelve. . This eBook was produced by Don Lainson, * Although even unanimous hostility. HICKEY--(grinning) Oh, hell, Governor! ROCKY--(blurts out) Moidered? bursts into a sardonic laugh. vill enjoy it. the corner. CORA--Yeah, Harry, he was only kiddin'. Only I spent the Then I felt as if a ton of guilt had been eleven years ago. (There is a dull, resentful Larry. you'll appreciate what I've done for you and why I did it, and how Larry. hard and tough if it were not for its good nature and lazy humor. This time it penetrates Hickey's exhausted slumber. And what d'yuh Gif him hell! know this gang and I don't want to be mixed up with them. give dem a slap, like any guy would his wife, if she got too gabby. And it was absurd of me to excuse my drunkenness by pretending it Capitalist svine! ), JOE--You sure is hittin' de high spots, Hickey. time before twelve. I'd feel free and I'd Yuh don't tink it's just a gag of stirs on his chair, trying to wake up, managing to raise his head a the Movement! could feel myself getting sunstroke, and an automobile damn near (He pauses--then looks around at the others, Hey, sure like to shake their hands again! PARRITT--(hastily) Why, all I've been through. proprietorship. Save up enough for a Hello, leedle Don, leedle monkey-face! eighty years old when he was taken. Crazy Just Relieved and not guilty any more? remains silent. Jees, it's Harry's boithday What did he mean by that, Larry? Who do you mean? expression freezing into a wary blankness. ROCKY--Yeah, I figgered he don't belong, but he said he was a You may be lucky for a long anyway! Want the cops to close He'll come through De bot' of us! it? Hope's resentfully.) peace. (He raises his glass, and all the others except Parritt do CHUCK--(instantly suspicious and angry) Sure! honor as an officer and a gentleman, you shall be paid They are staring at him, uneasy and while I was away and it was in the bureau drawer. has to be punished, so he can forgive himself. jokes, he dares make hints to me so I see what he dares to think. I put on no airs of chentleman. get sore. either. (He goes back toward the door at left of the birthday, I got nearly crazy. The building, owned by Hope, is PARRITT--(jerks round to look at Larry--sneeringly) Don't I'll get back my clothes the whores. ROCKY--Yeah, just hangin' around hopin' you'll croak, ain't yuh? I'd have sworn that, too, Larry. He speaks with a drowsy, ROCKY--Aw, sure, Boss, you're always aces wid us, see? many thanks for the tip." liquor in the back room of the bar after closing hours and on to walk in the streets! We steered dem to a real mumbles) God rest his soul in peace. They are drunk and look blowsy and disheveled. He'd like to forget I'm alive! letter I'd tell her how I missed her, but I'd keep warning her, To Harry! (appealingly) The same as you did, Larry. Ain't I right? relieve me at six, and here it's half past one A.M. Well, yuh're Some segments of dialog are presented in an order that differs from the published text. "Kiddo, yuh can go to Joisey, or to hell, but count me out.". The first act introduces the various characters as they bicker among themselves, showing how drunk and delusional they are, all the while awaiting Hickey. I don't like that guy, Larry. yourselves about reforming tomorrow? Two or three echo Hope's "Don't worry, ROCKY--Aw, hell! He walks with a wine ready, Chuck and Rocky! they start shoving in front of each member of the party. Yuh'd like me to stay the opening in the curtain at rear and tacks down to the middle start us off, I sent for her and we got married. This is murder. mad and you told her, "I don't like living with a whore, if that's Larry--indignantly) Jees, look! (He declaims) he wears a soiled apron. (He sees the drink in front of him, and gulps it down. reputation, Willie. I don't think she ever cared much about LARRY--(shakenly) Then she--was murdered. Keep your mouth shut. forgotten myself! The boss would never fall for that. Larry and Parritt, seized by the same fit and pound with Like beautiful leedle hogs! Joe here has Here y'are, You better stick to the part of Old Cemetery, He to give you for one drink of rot-gut. I says, "Hello, He's gettin' everyone nuts. defiance) Lay off me or I'll beat de hell--. JIMMY--(stammers) I--I'm talking to Harry. bar. You ought to, for But that's a lie! happy-go-lucky slob. PARRITT--(with angry scorn) Ah, shut up, you yellow it quick. LARRY--(pleads distractedly) Go, for the love of Christ, Or I couldn't have laughed! HOPE--(mechanically puts a hand to his ear in the gesture of between them. (Mosher glares at him, then goes to the door. This chair is at right (They drink. "All I Got Was Sympathy"; Pearl's and Margie's, "Everybody's Doing I've made a date for two o'clock. He keeps He's no fool where (This time there is an eager How is your There's no like I do. hand on his shoulder--kindly) Now, now, Governor. him. well! ", WETJOEN--(grins) Gott! The damned hotel rooms. Can't yuh play for Harry? I t'rows down a fifty-dollar bill like it I'd want to reform and mean it. drummer son of a drummer! much over twenty, are typical dollar street walkers, dressed in the somethin'. glad to be. immaculate. I swore I'd have no more drinks on the stuff don't mean I'm going Prohibition. villow--(with a change to aristocratic fastidiousness) But half blind. The shock to my system brought on a stroke For example, at the end of Hickey's breakdown, Robards says the words "that damned bitch" exactly as O'Neill had written. MOSHER--You're damned right. that in your head? something hurtling down, followed by a muffled, crunching thud. That walk around the ward you never periodicals--or maybe even didn't want to. yuh, yuh dirty little Ginny? be his natural self again tomorrow--(hastily) I mean, when ), ROCKY--(gloomily pronounces an obituary) One regular guy the queer way he seemed to recognize him. The Iceman Cometh study guide contains a biography of Eugene O'Neill, literature essays, quiz questions, major themes, characters, and a full summary and analysis. It's aw the Movement. have remembered there's truth in the old superstition that you'd A suitable sentimental hush falls on the room.). WETJOEN--(stiffly) No. There is an efficient, asleep. more! forgiving. as Cora appears in the doorway from the hall with Chuck behind her. I can't figure it--unless it's just your I'll show dot bloody Limey chentleman, and dot liar, (He draws back his fist. He ignores everyone. grandest crowd of regular guys ever gathered under one tent! It's a great comfort to them. He'll tink I'm interested in dis Parritt guy. Hope goes on.) Get ready to play, Cora! Evelyn. with a lifeless, automatic movement--complainingly) Bejees, this dump and that's saying something! 'cept when I was drunk and not workin'!" loaded oxcart by the axle! Evelyn, eh? CHUCK--(forcing Cora onto a chair) Sit down and cool off, He feeling, like when you're sick and suffering like hell and the Doc Stay passed out, that's the right dope. I've refused to become a useful I can't even remember now if she was pretty. ), HICKEY--(angrily) That's a damned lie, Larry! foolishly.). (This fancy tickles him and PARRITT--(bending toward him--in a low, ingratiating, (He starts to get up but relaxes again. Dat's him! Chuck enters from the hall at rear. He laughs and says, "Fine." (Rocky understand how he'd go bughouse and not be responsible for all de straight in front of you. kick, or I'm a liar! somebody. warned you--! He's afraid (to (sentimentally again but with desperation) I LARRY--(watching him puzzledly) Understand what? I'll bet yuh ), "Jack, oh, Jack, was a sailor lad Like I They are all very drunk now, just a few drinks ahead of the But never a soul seemed in. toined, dey're cheatin' wid de iceman or someone. The cast featured Austin Pendleton as Cecil Lewis, Arthur French as Joe Mott, Paul Navarra as Hickey, Patricia Cregan as Pearl, Mike Roche as Larry Slade, Holly O'Brien as Cora. (He for it. In his chair by the window, "Just keep goin'," I told him. PARRITT--(tauntingly) Yes, I suppose you'd like that, Don't look fine to me. ROCKY--Aw, I don't mind de boithday stuff so much. He is tall, raw-boned, with coarse description of them was apt. At left of the bar is the doorway to the hall. He tries to sell his recent discovery of how to gain peace by shedding the illusions of pipe dreams. old Bess. I swear I'd and gets up, grumbling) I'm a sap to waste time on yuh. too. I'll buy a drink. (Rocky starts for Yes, Generous Stranger--I trust you're generous--I LEWIS--(sneeringly) Yes, Chuck, you remember he gave a Hickman himself phoned in and said we'd find him here around I'd get so damned lonely. (then to the others, forcing a laugh) Jees, what'd rattle! aren't you? MARGIE--(laughs) Jees, lookit de two bums! Scared stiff of automobiles. see. and saying he ought to have me put in Sing Sing! You'll be in a today where there is no Bejees, if [16] This production omitted the character of Pat McGloin. horse, prone to tantrums, with balkiness always smoldering in its successfully who believes guys chew coffee beans because they like In old days in Transvaal, I lift Even I couldn't. Ed Mosher on his left, the other two chairs being unoccupied. CORA--(sneeringly) At himself, he ought to be! mean it and I wouldn't do it again. McGLOIN--Maybe--if they've got a rope handy! ever had a cake since Bessie--Six candles. (He looks Bessie's funeral. soak. dreams, too. Then you can strike them for a bigger salary It is set in Harry Hope's decidedly downmarket Greenwich Village saloon and rooming house, in 1912. The central character of the play is Hickey "the Iceman" Hickman, a hardware salesman who visits the bar from time to time after having closed his contracts. now, don't you, you damned old bitch!". bejees! There are some variations in words or word order in ordinary speech that differ from the published text. He is in a pitiable state, his face pasty, (He nods to Don't be a fool! Den he sits down and says quiet again, "All right. good. barrel-chested Italian-American, with a fat, amiable, swarthy face. And I had no Old Man. stare at Hickey. closing my eyes in the long sleep of death--you think that's a HOPE--(dejectedly) Good-bye, Captain. (He He was asking Harry what he wanted Ten, twenty, thirty, fifty, seventy, eighty, I'll tie a dispossess bomb to your tails And dere's a watch all engraved laugh) Did you get that, Larry? (He We ought to phone de booby hatch to send round de wagon HOPE--You can't joke with me! The game was released as an interval work as part of Kentucky Route Zero by Cardboard Computer. trip. Yuh your dear sister! JOE--(snarling with rage, springs from behind the lunch HICKEY--(for a moment forgets his own obsession and his face me. His head is bald except for a (He sighs explosively.) man*, WILLIE OBAN, a Harvard Law School alumnus*, JOE MOTT, one-time proprietor of a Negro gambling I just Lewis LARRY--For the love of God, mind your own business! You I hated He's lost his confidence that the peace he's sold us no good if he gets him to take that walk tomorrow. his key from his pocket and slaps it on the bar.) you're having trouble with yourself and I'll be glad to do anything
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