Greenwich village companies take over producing O’Neil’s plays. In 1925 his daughter Ooma was born and he had returned to his writing. Along with becoming aquatinted with his future third wife Carlotta Montorey, he also received an honorary Literary Doctorate from Yale. In order to depart from his family, in 1928, he left to go on a trip around Europe and the Orient. He refused to return to the United States until Agnes consented a divorce. After one year, Agnes was granted a divorce on the grounds of desertion. He shortly after married Carlotta and he left France to return to New York. 1937 brought on the beginning of W.W.II and a Nobel prize in Literature for Eugene O’Neil, after this he sank into seclusion with his wife. Finally he emerged with his great masterpieces in hand, in 1943, he had finally completed “The Iceman Cometh,” and “A Long Day’s Journey Into the Night.” The rest of his life was plagued by the suicide of his beloved oldest son, his only daughter married Charlie Chaplain, and he disowned his daughter and middle son. He and his wife were also in and out of several hospitals until he died in 1950 and was laid to rest in Boston never to see the success of his two greatest works. “The Iceman Cometh” is about a man Larry, who considers himself a philosopher, but his over analysis is ultimately his undoing “I was born and I am condemned to be one of those people who see all sides of a question. When you’re damned like that, the questions multiply for you until in the end it’s all a big question and no answer”(Raleigh p13). Larry moves from one dismal idea to the next until he loses site of truth and ultimately of hope. “Truth, to hell with the truth! As the history of the world proves, the truth has no bearing on anything. It is irrelevant and as the lawyers say, it is immaterial”(Raleigh p13). Larry’s final conclusion is...
