The Washington Post, May 16th, 2005
Eugene O'Neill had a soft spot for ladies of the evening -- on the stage, anyway -- and the feelings he expressed about them were never mushier than in "Anna Christie," his tenderhearted fable of a fallen woman and the Irish lug she falls for. The romantic fancies of a prostitute must have been quite the risque topic in 1921, the year the play made its debut. O'Neill's sentimental story chipped away at Anna's shell, exposing both the cruelties that led her into such a degrading life and the core of dignity and goodness that made her a person to believe in. The moral ambiguity in her character ...
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