"The Iceman Cometh" is a tragedy written by Eugene O'Neill in 1939. It is a story about a couple of men who spend the last days of their lives getting drunk in a bar. They believe in these lies about themselves--pipe dreams, as they call it--that enable them to think that their tomorrows would be better. These pipe dreams and the whiskey that they drink everyday get them through their dismal days. One day, they were …
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…the play has religious symbolic meaning. Hickey is somewhat messianic, in the way he tried to deliver the other men from the chains of their pipe dreams. It shows how people wouldn't just believe anyone, even if it could save their lives, that our society is stubborn and narrow-minded. We believe too much in ourselves that we fail to realize that some of the solutions to our problems are already in front of our faces.