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Truths held in youth are rarely those that endure until death. As years accumulate, so does, allegedly, one’s wisdom and capacity for reflection. Eugene O’Neill, author of The Iceman Cometh, reveals in this dramatic play his own experiences with Catholicism and how his views had altered through his lifetime regarding this faith.
As a child, O’Neill was raised in a devout Irish Catholic family. His early years were spent in hotels and trains, on account of his father’s hectic profession. He was also left in the care of his mother, a woman heavily dependent upon morphine. Obviously, in such a state as this, Mrs. O’Neill could hardly display the affections necessary to raise an emotionally healthy child.
This relationship of mother and son is evident in The Iceman Cometh through the characters of Parritt and his own mother. Parritt, similar to O’Neill, resented his mother for her lack of emotional nourishment. So, out of his malice towards her, he betrays ...

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