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Article: A drunken widow in a gilded cage
- Article from:
- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- July 8, 1995
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In the dedication to Long Day's Journey into Night, Eugene
O'Neill describes how his wife Carlotta's love enabled him to
"write this play - write it with deep pity and understanding and
forgiveness for all the four haunted Tyrones". The playwright
showed less compassion for his descendants: on his deathbed, he
"cursed his children and their offspring and the offspring to
come." It's this curse, in the view of Patrice Chaplin, that her
former mother-in-law, Oona O'Neill Chaplin, bore for the rest of
her life.
For O'Neill, genius seems to have been less an infinite capacity
for taking pains than for evading responsibilities. Oona saw her
father only half a dozen times after he abandoned his ...
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