第二章
中期作品
——悲愴、復(fù)雜的愛

也許我能講清我對蘊(yùn)藏在生活后面那股強(qiáng)勁而又無形的力量的感受。我的創(chuàng)作抱負(fù)就是要在我的劇本中能多多少少地顯示出這股無形的力量所起的作用。^[1]

——尤金·奧尼爾

[1]Travis Bogard& J. R. Bryer, Selected Letters of Eugene O’Neill, New Haven: Yale University Press,1988,p.87.原文為：“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.”