第二章
中期作品
——悲怆、复杂的爱

也许我能讲清我对蕴藏在生活后面那股强劲而又无形的力量的感受。我的创作抱负就是要在我的剧本中能多多少少地显示出这股无形的力量所起的作用。^[1]

——尤金·奥尼尔

[1]Travis Bogard& J. R. Bryer, Selected Letters of Eugene O’Neill, New Haven: Yale University Press,1988,p.87.原文为：“Perhaps I can explain the nature of my feeling for the impelling,inscrutable forces behind life whichit is my ambition to at least faintly shadow at their work in my plays.”