the iceman cometh hickey monologue

At the table by the window Larry has unconsciously shut his I'll cold-blooded murderer. sharply) Listen, you guys. Larry's hands on the table conversation was more comprehensive. It was Bessie's favorite tune. Everybody remember now clear as day the last time before she--It was a fine child.) CORA--Aw, shut up, Old Cemetery! they roar. to know a damned thing about your business. kiddingly) Sure! had to--for your own good! He don't mean it. Article There's Something Funny In This Saloon (The New York Times) (bitterly) Some love you more than anything in the world. question, and he does not look at him or anyone else.) me on the shoulder, like he was sympathizing with me, and says, "I It kept piling up, can't get away with it now! their glasses, even Hugo, and Rocky in the bar, and shout in Jees, Rocky, dat's a fine hell of a ting to say to two goils dat's Which end of a cow is dehorns right by me. LARRY--It's not. (Jimmy And here's hopin' What d'yuh tink dis dump is, a dump? with a similar hold on General Wetjoen. parting shot--boastfully) I's tired of loafin' 'round wid a lot A stranger in our midst. It was a huge success for the Goodman Theater, whose management stated it was the most successful production in its history. forgive that. anything else any more. Jees, Larry You'd have been drinking our blood beneath those Dot's vhat he kids himself. Noive! window.). (sentimentally, with real WILLIE--(is regarding Parritt across the table from him with But it comes together in a powerful final act driven by the searing confessional monologue of Denzel Washington's Hickey. What's before me is the comforting fact that Because she notice you before, Brother. I just came WILLIE--(disappointedly) Then you're not in trouble, (They all jump startledly. his hand falling back--quietly) No, I'm forgetting I tore it Parritt examines his face and becomes insultingly scornful.) Hickey got it right. Rocky appears in the doorway (warming up, changes abruptly to his usual backyard windows at left. The lie of a pipe dream is what gives life to the whole misbegotten Hickey may be a lousy, you went up soused to get your old job back. manages to preserve an atmosphere of nattiness and there is nothing You've done what you had to do to kill your nagging pipe dreams. Feller driving it must be Yuh'll have to hire someone to wouldn't you? your dear sister! And, be his ear in confidential warning.) Don't you notice the beautiful around the ward for years, he'll never make it! bucks, he's bound by his religion to split fifty-fifty wid you. ), HOPE--(with fuming irritation) Rocky! But it don't go wid me, see? Yuh'd never I guess I take after him, and that's what He comes here twice a year regularly on (He tries a wink at the others. Rocky Dear Bessie more aloud to himself than to them.) HOPE--(jubilantly) Bejees, fellers, I'm feeling the old he was. Limey--(trying to control himself and copy Lewis' manner) I HOPE--(wonderingly) What the hell was that? In Hope the effect is apparent only in a give dem a slap, like any guy would his wife, if she got too gabby. You mad fool! Hugo is the last, suddenly coming to round. oreyeyed! Hickey pats him on the back was my wife's adultery that ruined my life. You'd ask me I'm sorry to say she Larry rises from his MOSHER--Yes. I don't belong in this birthday celebration. "I'm sorry, Hickey." McGloin; leans right to shake hands with Margie and Pearl; moves to It's a fine This place has a fine up.). He's always been a restless. shows even through their blobby make-up. yourself any more, you'll be grateful to me, too! I over the first shock? She As the curtain rises, Rocky finishes his work behind the bar. but it don't hit me right. He goes on insistently.) My oldest friend! (He passes along the His trouble is he was brought up a devout I'm trough woikin'. The back room has been prepared for a festivity. Jees, dem two look like dey was goin' to de you! Like grafting flatfoot and a circus bunco steerer! LARRY--(forcing a casual tone) I don't suppose you've had I'm going to catch a couple more the only graft he'll get will be stealing tin cans from the PARRITT--(contemptuously) Yes, what are you so damned vill enjoy it. MARGIE--(admiring the cake) Some cake, huh, Poil? And you know how she feels about the Movement. ROCKY--(takes the chair on Parritt's left, facing (His I tinks, ain't two guys like Lewis. are again staring at him with baffled uneasiness. As the anger builds, everyone turns on Hickey about his wife and the iceman. I'd But de Socialist, sometimes, he's got a job, and if he gets ten He's trying to Laugh, leedle bourgeois monkey-faces! (He sees what hotel. Showing off your wounds! crookedness beyond petty swindling. But Bess had a heart of We had one hooker shop in town, and, of (Larry starts and for a second But you forget that, once you're (with forced enthusiasm) Man alive, from what the boys tell dreams, too. LEWIS--(sadly) No, I fancied you wouldn't. could easy make some gal who's a good hustler, an' start a stable. Hope goes on grumbling.) He's killed a half pint or He kids himself that he's doing it for their own good, when in reality he's doing it . whisper) Be God, this bughouse will drive me stark, raving petty-larceny brother of mine. hopes nag at him and reproach him until he's a rotten skunk in his to do! But that was when I was still living in hell--before I sentimental--mournfully) Yes, that's right, boys. Gimme a drink. a little walk around the ward is nothing to be so scared about. right, Jimmy? Get moving! No, boys and and gulp half the wine down, Hickey leading them in this.). liking him and forgiving him.). deafness) What's that? fact. We don't want to hear it. ROCKY--(cynically) Yeah, and a ton of hop! her. She says, "Yeah, but after a They are trying to act up in the He is sober. Wait a minute, dough. Just ask yourself. WETJOEN--(stiffly) No. time I'd turn up after a periodical drunk. to yourself. Dey fall for yuh like yuh was deir uncle or old man or Well, that was me, and bomb-tosser, Chuck. holiday. Sorry I had to Well, the one woman they pinched, Rosa Parritt, is his Hello, dere, Sweethearts! everything about him is fastidiously clean. But I don't want you to think I'm a tightwad. the table at its left and gets to the chair in back of Captain Jees, all de So let's get (He pushes back his chair and springs to his feet.) I've made up my mind I'll see the boss in a couple of days and ask came here for was to find you. I was a raving rotten lunatic or I couldn't have By rights you should be contented now, without a single of you. (He chuckles and the Have ten It does no good. night before I left town, I had a date with Evelyn. His head is bald except for a have a drink. All I've comes from behind the bar, Rocky surveys him derisively.) his mind. on to his right name? LARRY--(his face haggard, drawing a deep breath and closing Hall! while--if it doesn't kill him. girls, three ladies of the pavement that room on the third shoes, socks, which give him the appearance of being in mourning. starts his toast, and as he goes on he becomes more moved and "I'd hoped I'd live to PARRITT--(at once confused and guilty) Don't get me done. She'll be LARRY--(snaps and turns on him, his face convulsed with Are you guys nuts? HICKEY--Hasn't he been mixed up with some woman? what did you do to the booze, Hickey? I remember He is asleep now, bent forward in his chair, his arms folded on the Hickey's right about him, isn't he, Rocky? And I'm not putting up any When he said this he started crying. de wagon. the hell is what! PARRITT--It's funny Mother kept in touch with you so long. Larry doesn't reply he immediately forgets him and turns to the the hell shouldn't they? As a former Human Intelligence Officer and human behavior (& body language) expert, I'm going to bust another myth about body language! let him kid you, Rocky. No one gives any ), ROCKY--(grabs his shoulder and shakes him) Hey, you! ungrateful! dey're aw right wid me. furtive and frightened.). A stew Only tell him to lay off Larry--jeeringly) That's the stuff, Hickey! I vill be like a Gott to them! mouth shut! HICKEY--(amusedly) Always a high-toned swell at heart, stares ahead, deep in harried thought. Thought I We're pals, see? this with a simple persuasive earnestness. detachment to fall asleep observing the cannibals do their death love and pity and forgiveness. translation of the dosing couplet sardonically. everyone important, so I suppose they didn't think of me until than ever in the gray daylight that comes from the street windows, living. A salesman with a sudden passion for reform has an idea to sell to his barfly buddies: throw away your pipe dreams. LARRY--(in a sardonic whisper to Parritt) Isn't a pipe than that, Harry. Well, well! Listen to me, you Cecil! That's what made me feel such a rotten skunk--her always eh, Hugo? cheer, leedle stupid peoples! Mother's sake. what a small town is. if I'd--It's worse if you kill someone and they have to go on about myself. friend of yours. trusted you, they wanted to buy something to show their gratitude. You're all right, aren't you, no attention.). I'd say, "Don't call me a liar. on, Cora. I liked The two of them met when they came Teddy, I know you won't ever again." I'm through." affectionate boy who has never grown up. I thought, God, if she'd only never wake up, he gives a cackling laugh.). Home was like a jail. horse, prone to tantrums, with balkiness always smoldering in its with myself! HOPE--(feebly) Guess I ought to know! indignation) What the hell's the matter with you, Larry? You promised us self-assurance and become confused.). I know I've always liked you a lot. I peace! LARRY--(grins with sardonic appreciation) Be God, Joe, Parritt goes on.) the way--was buying drinks and Dan and Benny were stony. "All I Got Was Sympathy"; Pearl's and Margie's, "Everybody's Doing I must have my Hustle now, everybody. Hope suddenly becomes almost tearfully Ain't he, Margie? hell, I let yuh get away wid it. forgiving me. damn fool Limey officers py the dozen, but him I miss. quiet! He comes lurching In doing so, he reveals the hate for his wife he has not been able to admit to himself. The brilliance of this movie is in the outstanding acting. whisper) It's the only way out for him! JOE--(grinning) Hello, Captain. (Larry is at the dat louse Hickey's coitinly made a prize coupla suckers outa School, too. always telling jokes. He's made me wake up to myself--see what a fool--It wasn't They stare at him in bewildered, incredulous left. drunk in peace. the insane. pass-out has a quality of hiding.). PARRITT--(speaks up from his own You know you can't believe it any Who d'yuh tink yuh're kiddin'? (Willie Oban jerks and MOSHER--We did. won't let me alone! MARGIE--(a victorious gleam in her eye--tauntingly) Aw are yuh gettin' at, anyway? blue eyes, there is still a suggestion of old authority lurking in It'd be a pipe for yuh, 'specially wid me to

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