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This paper compares Eugene O’Neill’s The Hairy Ape and Arthur Miller’s A Memory of Two Monday to study how the playwrights similarly used Irish immigrant characters in industrial settings as powerful vehicles of reflection and rebellion, and how these similarities relate to their own immigrant family histories.
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Polster, J.E. (2020). Irish Immigrant Rebellion in O’Neill’s The Hairy Ape and Miller’s A Memory of Two Mondays. In: Marino, S., Palmer, D. (eds) Arthur Miller for the Twenty-First Century. American Literature Readings in the 21st Century. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-37293-4_10
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