Think about the character of Yank as a representative for the common laborers who worked in the stokehole. How do these workers compare to laborers in contemporary society? What might you expect to be their (the laborers) take on society and the economic conditions? How is this similar to or different from Yank's attitude?
How does Yank compare with the character of Willy Loman in Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman? How is he different? How are then-fates similar or different?
Investigate the era of the 1920s. If you were Eugene O'Neill today.....
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