@article{ref1,
title="EUgene O'Neill, George Bellows, and the lincoln arcade",
journal="Eugene O'Neill Review",
year="2021",
author="Brietzke, Z.",
volume="42",
number="1",
pages="17-40",
abstract="O'Neill lived in the New York studio of Ashcan artist George Bellows for about nine months in 1908-9. Bread and Butter (1914) is ostensibly about an O'Neill-like hero, a painter, whose family destroys him because it fails to or refuses to understand him. The real hero, though, is the protagonist's roommate, modeled after Bellows, whose eventual hard-earned success prompts the protagonist to commit suicide in despair. O'Neill dramatizes for the first time the tragedy of abandoned hopes and dreams, a subject and theme he pursues next with Beyond the Horizon, then The Great God Brown (1925), and finally Long Day's Journey Into Night (1941). His early vow to become &quot;an artist or nothing&quot; can be evaluated in terms of his relationship with Bellows, to whom he would compare and against whom he would compete throughout his career. © 2021 THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY, UNIVERSITY PARK, PA<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1040-9483",
doi="10.5325/EUGONEIREVI.42.1.0017",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.5325/EUGONEIREVI.42.1.0017"
}