Word: cliffhanger
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What is strongest in the play itself is O'Neill's flashing mastery of theater, the way he can put a character in a preposterous situation and still make a playgoer cliffhang over the outcome. The archetypal relationships, father versus son. Nina grieving over the child that will never be born, have unimpaired emotional authority. So do some scenes of Chekhovian poignance. such as Nina's autumnal soliloquy on the meaning of the men in her life and what time has done to her and them...
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