The protagonist is arrested after revealing he shot his wife Evelyn in her sleep to escape the guilt of his drinking and womanizing, but not before convincing bar patrons like Piet Wotjoen, Hugo Kalmar, and Jimmy Tomorrow to pursue the impossible pipe-dreams that are causing guilt in their lives.
At the end of this play Don Parritt confesses to the anarchist Larry Slade that he had turned his own mother over the the police due to her affair with Larry before killing himself by jumping from the fire escape. The protagonist is arrested after revealing he shot his wife Evelyn in her sleep to escape the guilt of his drinking and womanizing, but not before convincing bar patrons like Piet Wotjoen, Hugo Kalmar, and Jimmy Tomorrow to pursue the impossible pipe-dreams that are causing guilt in their lives. Set in Harry Hope's saloon, FTP, what is this drama centering on Theodore Hickman by Eugene O'Neill?
At the end of this play Don Parritt confesses to the anarchist Larry Slade that he had turned his own mother over the the police due to her affair with Larry before killing himself by jumping from the fire escape.
The Iceman Cometh