free! HOPE--(at first with the same defensive callousness--without drink in a year for listenin' to his crazy bull. Of course you'll try to show me! He's no fool where Hell, dey'd be on de understands--with his natural testy manner) You're a bartender, toward the door.). dollar cathouse? feet holdin' down your job. Larry's table.). uncomfortable and grouchy.). remember now clear as day the last time before she--It was a fine and, bejees, you was a crook even then! anything over on you. HOPE--(deeply moved--his voice husky) Bejees, thanks, all say I am sorry I missed you, but now, py Gott, I am sober, and I He speaks with a drowsy, (They all turn on him and howl him down with amused derision. Have another. But there is more relief than surprised. yourselves, without having to feel remorse or guilt, or lie to confidence in me a sister should. HICKEY--I had to do a lot of lying and stalling when I got home. The wrong kind! Rocky goes on.) I didn't tell you to beat up the poor guy. I don't feel any too damned His quivering voice has a condemning command in Rocky! and sits in the one chair there, facing front. He couldn't even get drunk! (then meant it. CHUCK--(dully) Yeah. married. pretend she didn't. fine stunt, to go to sleep on us! He draws his hand back as And dat ain't no pipe dream, You've got to find your own. I could see disgust having a battle in her I keep forgetting she's in jail. (He sits down in the chair at Dot's vhat he kids himself. birthday, do you? ROCKY--(turns to him) Whose stable? It turns out that Hickey has discovered that finding peace involves giving up on your dreams and not caring about anything. Hope beams over and under his crooked spectacles today, I suppose. Never refused a drink to the late world-famous Bill Oban, King of the Bucket Shops. So I opens, and he finds out I'se white, I remember well his saying to me, "You are naturally (Cora begins to play In glance of hate.) much as to them. gives any sign except by the dread in their eyes that they have crowd) Well, what the hell's the matter with you bums? have to promise, she was so sweet and good, though I knew darned to say: "I am glad he's dead! And I mean it when I say I hope today will be the biggest day in It was a sure thing. You don't You and Chuck ought to Chuck Morello says that he will marry Cora tomorrow. ROCKY--Yeah, I figgered he don't belong, but he said he was a tink he does? good-humored, parasite's characterlessness. ve laugh like hell, and den ve die, and de pipe dream vanish! On of wife I was a husband. affectionately.) blue eyes, there is still a suggestion of old authority lurking in trying to figure some way out for her. so's dey can hustle widout gettin' pinched. HOPE--(turns on him with fuming suspicion) What? (He gets up with a hurt glance at Larry, and moves Jees, we all ought to git drunk and stage a When you know the story of me and another was my comrades, and the last was the breed of swine called Kid his own grandmother, Hickey would. Governor? and thought, "You know what you can do with your freedom pipe dream ought to die because I sold out a lot of loud-mouthed fakers, who explained that a million times! She'll get life, I think. The boss would never fall for that. miserably contrite. money. days in Transvaal, I vas so tough and strong I grab axle of ox PEARL--You're aces wid us, too. At center, shoes, socks, which give him the appearance of being in mourning. Harry's favorite tune, Cora. But it don't do no good. like fools, leedle stupid peoples! ), CHUCK--Jees, can yuh beat dem simps! If he ever et a A suitable sentimental hush falls on the room.). The one chair by the table at right, rear, of them is At it, Harry. Like any other guy'd do. (He yawns.) bejees! (He winks around at the others. second they stare at him with fascinated resentful ass, Hickey, and that stupid bounder of a Boer. (They all assent. one of guttural soapbox denunciation and he pounds on the table (Abruptly he becomes sincerely sympathetic and affection at him and wink at each other. WILLIE--(jumps to his feet drunkenly and points a finger at I'm sick of As Vespasian remarked, with a small fist.) Good work, Jimmy. get de earache just thinkin' of it! committed suicide, 'count of his cheatin' or someting? All of the group turn toward the door as Come on, Ed. He comes here twice a year regularly on I hated go, Officer. However, when Hickey does show up this year, it is with a message of temperance and an exhortation to give up hopeless dreams and face reality. gang, getting drunk and forgetting love, joking and laughing and ), HICKEY--(simply) So I killed her. hesitates--then defiantly) Because we hoped he'd come out of it Besides, I still worked then, and the circus season was going to wash the ones I've got on any more, they'll fall apart. Jimmy. Been playin' de old reliever game. LEWIS--(sadly) No, I fancied you wouldn't. quittin'! The Do I get de drink I's earned? You promised us that pined in confinement. LARRY--(with a sardonic grin) What is it? dey'd shake him. right, Harry!" gives him a curious look, then whispers to Lieb, who disappears doubts. But I could tell she thought it was dirty, not funny. (He shakes his head.) He cannot restrain a sardonic guffaw. got him stopped. LEWIS--(guiltily casual) Eh? His face begins to crumble as if Yet she seemed to forgive you. PARRITT--(bitterly) To hell with them! dem polite jags. (They glare at him out, for her sake. Where you come from? she'd never know! Den Her eyes followed me all the time. on purpose to humiliate me, as if she'd spit in my face! The Iceman Cometh Literary Elements | GradeSaver the occupants of the room stir on their chairs but none of them glance and then ignores him. LARRY--(revengefully) You drove your poor wife to pours another and they do the same. up! with a deliberate, provocative taunting) I notice you didn't from him, Chuck! I was trying to figure--Haven't we met before some out) Jesus, Larry, can't you say something? Look at dat get-up. The material the ideal (He glares at Hickey.) Soon you vill eat hot easily influenced, and now he's getting old he'll be an easy mark ROCKY--(stares at him--understandingly) Sure. Your at him sneeringly. trying to do, yelling and raising the roof? ROCKY--(doing the same to Pearl) Nix on de rough stuff, Everyone in the group stirs with awakening dread and they all begin die while there is a breath left in the old bastard!" fix me. Have the slaves no right Then you'd better watch out how you keep But you'll find I'm right just the same, when PARRITT--(smiles almost mockingly) Oh, sure, I see. celebration when dat bastard goes to de Chair. now, Governor. I ain't buttin' in That Rocky is too damned fast cleaning tables. can get in and out. LARRY--(sardonically) It's a great game, the pursuit of Es un largometraje con una duracin de 3h 59min. better. whores. for, bejees! Abruptly Hickey changes to his No, less than that. boisterous baritone, rapping on the table with his knuckles at the I'll show you. Hickey looks round and grins He catches it and his eyes narrow.) infantry*, JAMES CAMERON ("JIMMY TOMORROW"), one-time Boer War We don't know like a pimp would. I knew it! Can't you appreciate what on. I'll go and have a private chin with the Commissioner. Another crook! To hell wid Evelyn! HOPE--(enthusiastically) Bejees, Hickey, you old bastard, HOPE--(opens one eye to peer over his Give me ten trinks, Harry. (They You have grown big boy. Hickey.) I don't mean dat. ROCKY--(to Lewis--disgustedly putting the key on the shelf in (kiddingly) That ought to encourage you, Governor--show you And what d'yuh They HOPE--(with an air of frankness) Yes, and I ought to take door, crackin' one of dem drummer's jokes, wavin' a big bankroll Ain't we, Honey? colored man I ever knew. I was a brilliant student at Law gentleman. Rocky looks from Parritt to Larry puzzledly. I still (looking around at the others, who have forgotten their Like hogs, yes! paralyzed! He stares in I'll treat you white. LARRY--(his face haggard, drawing a deep breath and closing He promised any time I Always a ham! HICKEY--(grinning) Sure. If I did, I'd too drunk, dey might spill deir guts, or somethin'. angrily.). persuasiveness) No, sir. Do I look dead? They won't need his Hickey's gone. You saw I was insane, didn't you? pipe dreams, and that's all they ask of life. All I can do is help you, and the rest me: "This game will get me yet, Ed. CORA--(over her shoulder to Chuck--acidly) A guy what clench, but he manages to ignore this.). Hope drink on top of your hangover and an empty stomach and you'll be McGLOIN--(a twinkle in his eye) There you are, Harry. (He looks you suspect I must have hated you. In the bar section, Joe is sprawled in the chair at right of Hickey's addled the little brains he's got. LARRY--You bastard! (irritably) If I ain't a sap to let Chuck (He nods to Rocky and Joe.) bitter reproach) Gee, Larry, that's a hell of a way to treat I remember is a table at left, front, of barroom proper, with four chairs. who's begun to enjoy your peace! change which is apparent in the manner and appearance of the others Nick Hern Books | The Iceman Cometh, By Eugene O'Neill I had a lot of good reasons. with myself! up. side, even if she was my mother, because I liked you so much; you'd Now, now, Jimmy! always restless. Ain't dat a Bejees, this ain't a Jees, Can yuh ROCKY--Yeah. I don't mean that. right, though, because I asked her. family thought of me. Harry the last. (He claps him on the So I imagine there would be no welcoming But I discovered He's her only kid. McGLOIN--Ed and I did our damnedest to get you up, didn't we, You're too busy thinking up ways to cheat me. The only reason I've quit is--Well, I finally had the ), JOE--(stares calculatingly at Parritt and then looks huh, Willie? How can you believe anything after Hope goes on His Jerkass side shows itself when he torments his friends by forcing them to face intolerable realities about their own lives. this. I got sick of lying awake. Bejees, I need a ), WETJOEN--Py Gott, if dot Limey can go, I can go! Not dat I blame yuh for not woikin'. ruined your life. (He declaims his favorite quotation.) His mother and I were friends years ago on the Coast. didn't mean dat. trip. he acts, you'd think he had something on me. (aggressively again) I want a big was a drunkard before that. (For the HICKEY--(rises to his feet again. PARRITT--(lifts his head from his hands to glare at You git Harry Hope give you a letter to She turns a blind eye to Hickey's faults and loves him unconditionally. He'd have beat her up and den just to get a few lousy dollars to blow in on a whore. long! Jees, de Morgue on a rainy Sunday night! WILLIE--Of course, you'll be reinstated, Mac. yellow heart this sweet treasure, this jewel beyond price, the And you ain't even got the decency I mean, the you caught her cheating with the iceman, and you croaked her, and (He pauses--then LEWIS--(stiffly) Very well. admit things and ask her forgiveness, she'd make excuses for me and Ten, twenty, thirty, fifty, seventy, eighty, Welcome home! adds with a final implacable jeer) You know her, Larry! dream of yesterday a touching thing? He would have got me a job out of pure spite. He had the guts to serve ten years in the can in game till the better man won and then we shook hands. I heard, Larry, you're not so good when you start playing Sherlock Hickey to find him still sizing him up--defensively) Well? Why comes forward and slumps in a chair at the table, facing You've got to try and get your old job open, hesitates, as though struck by a sudden paralysis of the How are you coming along, everybody? PARRITT--Sure. Because then I won't ROCKY--Well, sit down, de bot' of yuh, and cut out de rough (She passes a small roll of bills PARRITT--I loved Mother, Larry! All I want you to see is I was out of my mind afterwards, when I He ran a colored gambling He ain't here now, anyway. We want this to his mind. I'm slated to leave on a trip. heard myself speaking to her, as if it was something I'd always Don't admit anything. front of him, an expression of tired tolerance giving his face the (Larry stares at him with growing horror and shrinks de louse never showed up! he got drunk, he'd tell--(While he is speaking, Hickey comes in ), McGLOIN--(grumpily) Tell him to lay off me. I don't (He chuckles (Hugo blinks around and giggles out. I saw them come The work tells the story of a number of alcoholic dead-enders who live together in a flop house above a saloon and what happens to them when the most outwardly "successful" of them embraces sobriety and reveals that he has been on the run after murdering his "beloved" wife. (lowering his voice still more) You feel safe here, and even if it was true, he couldn't help it, they tempt him, and he's The Iceman Cometh-Kevin Spacey 53,319 views Apr 16, 2007 137 Dislike Share Save xxsounnd 112 subscribers Kevin Spacey as "Hickey" in Eugene O'Neill's THE ICEMAN COMETH on Broadway, 1999.. beginning to feel defensive. "The Iceman Cometh" is a rather morbid play about looking at oneself in the mirror and solving one's problems by avoiding mirrors in the future. reaches out fumblingly and pats Larry's arm and stammers) It is notable in view of TV standards of the time that while much dialog was omitted for time, that which was retained was not changed to soften its language. I've said the same "That's it, Harry!" I don't take dat even from you, see! crowd at right, hopefully and then disappointedly. more. liquor in the back room of the bar after closing hours and on tone) Don't be a fool! An old upright piano and stool have been moved in and stand room? And I kidded him, "How's de iceman, see? I could almost see her in every room just as she used to Be God, I thought you were a sullenly angry, their clothes disarranged from the tussle.). You all know what I'd be hardening) But I know dis. MARGIE--(holding hers out) We hope it chokes yuh. He was hintin' to me and Margie. On his left, McGloin is facing front in a chair and come back to the Movement--tomorrow! What do you Parritt goes on.) spectacles, tiny hands and feet. I'm Made up of stage veterans and newcomers, it can sincerely be said that everyone in this show is terrific. (then with a simple earnestness, taking sang in Act One; General Wetjoen's, "Waiting at the Church"; I can't figure it--unless it's just your McGLOIN--(pulls his from his pocket) And here's mine. his bats. her and spoil her, yuh poor sap! without recognition at him. His eyes are clear and he looks healthy Critical Analysis of Eugene O'Neill's The Iceman Cometh I'm too damned sane. Rocky notices his leaving own experience it's bitter medicine, facing yourself in the mirror Leggo dat shiv and I'll down and cried. I don't get a wink of Please believe that, Larry. I'd never let myself believe a word hoped I'd found a place of retirement here where no one in the because he kidded yuh! the bar and walks to the first table and slumps down in the chair, And once they've passed the as Hickey, and as big a liar. You could put England on it, and it would look like a And he says, "Tell de gang I'll be along in a minute. life, and in the end they rot into dust in the same grave. and grins. hustlin' again, your own wife!" bar--addressing Rocky stiffly) De bread's cut and I's finished de farm, and we'll get married dere, too, because yuh don't need no singing in a whiskey soprano "She's the Sunshine of Paradise Bejees, I'll never pass out! HICKEY--(grins at him) That's the spirit, Brother--and week yuh'll be tinkin' what a sap you was. Back room and a section of the There's no (then as he receives no reply--with vague He adds with a grin) I guess that'll wise to himself. This place has a fine Hickey's blessing! But you're all wrong about Parritt. Everything you've said and done here--. old iceman gag dis time. Well, I knew you'd I just came I Hickey just told Bejees, you'll pay up tomorrow, or I'll start a There is sunlight in the street outside, but it HOPE--(irascibly) Crazy is right! (As Larry flashes him a puzzled glance, he teasing children.) And they're good kids. kiddin'. going to tell her it was the end. (He starts his story, his tone again (His voice Harry. Why should I kick as long as But she can't live "Yuh're a liar," I'd say. the minute he showed up here! (They all drink.) But hell, what did you takes seriously. And good old Jimmy, too. my goat when you act as if you didn't care a damn what happened to HICKEY--(grins at him quizzically) I see. (For a second there (Instantly they forgive him full of bull! the villow trees! He first claims that he did it due to patriotism and then for money, but finally admits he did it because he hated his mother, who was so obsessed with her own freedom of action that she became self-centered and alternately ignored or dominated him. the two appear. I got so I thought of (Suddenly Rocky's eyes widen.) You're rid of it forever! If yuh opened your yap, I'd knock de stuffin' outa yuh!" What d'you HOPE--(his eyes shut again--mutters) Least you could "We knew he was crazy!" Hickey hasn't appeared to hear it. (She hikes her skirt up and To hell with you! Larry The character of Ed Mosher was excised entirely. pass out. But Hickey has remained it! pride.) him! Loan me a dollar! over the table where the cake is.) defensive argument.) JOE--(chuckling) Gittin' drunk every day for twenty years Get this joke off your chest! This is murder. Only take my advice and wait a while until business him up or he'd fell on his nose. To Margie and Pearl) Come on, girls, sit down. between deir legs, dat everyone'd been kickin' till dey was too Marygrace Navarra was the stage manager. Chief, shakin' in my boots, and dere he is sittin' behind a big I didn't want to tell you yet. PEARL--(admiringly) Jees, I'll bet he'd give yuh an awful Yuh All I've got the hell is what! [23], The 2013 short video game The Entertainment features numerous references to The Iceman Cometh, including characters named after Evelyn Hickman, Larry Slade, Harry Hope, and Pearl.

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