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... Paddy once a gain suggests—this time sarcastically—that he could see the kind, loving look in her eyes, just as if she saw a "great hairy ape" escapes from the zoo. Yank is struck by the thought of Mildred calling him a hairy ape. ... 2 Analysis
Language and speech distinguish class differences among characters within The Hairy Ape. ... Paddy recalls Mildreds reaction, "She [Mildred] shriveled away with her hands over her eyes to shut out the sight of him…twas as if shed seen a great hairy ape escaped from the Zoo! ... Long notices monkey fur in the window and tells Yank the rich certainly would not pay for a hairy apes skin. ... Yank dully begins his tale of being a fireman, but then in a sudden rage exclaims them he is a hairy ape. ... The voice continues to read the senators speech that describes the Wobblies as the force that would tear down society and put the lowest scum in seats of power, turning the world the civilized world to "topsy-turvy" and degenerate man back to the ape. ... was quite active when The Hairy Ape was written. ... "
The Hairy Ape makes clear distinctions between the "employing class" and the "working class. ... " Yank also feels a special kinship to the Wobblies because Senator Queen remarks that the group would degenerate modern American society "back to the ape."
Yank transitions from the "ape" to the "thinker" in Scene Six. ... " Yank rejects his identity as an "ape." This is a major change from the beginning of the scene where he identifies himself to the other inmates as the "ape" and thinks he is in a Zoo. Yank realizes that he is not an ape, but a person caged and imprisoned into a social identity by companies like Steel Trust. ... " Yank discloses to the Secretary that he wants to blow up Steel Trust, blow up all the steel in the world and then send Mildred a letter, signed the "Hairy Ape. ... The Secretary accuses Yank of working for the government, he tells Yank he is the biggest joke they have dealt with yet and calls Yank a brainless ape. ... The ape inside sits on his haunches and resembles the Rodins "The Thinker. ... Yank attempts to befriend the ape. He tells the ape that they are alike, as they are both caged and taunted. Yank believes he and the Ape belong to the same club and calls him brother. Yank releases the Gorilla from his cage and approaches the ape to shake his hand. ... While in Scene Seven Yank rejects the his "ape" identity, he embraces it again in Scene Eight as the animal world suddenly presents itself as his last hope of "belonging". ... Hubert Zapf, in ONeills Hairy Ape and the Reversal of Hegelian Dialectics characterizes Yank as the result of social progress, "Modern mans loss of any sort of cultural or social identity…the anonymous, non-communicative nature of industrial society; the captivity of individuals in circumstances alien to their most fundamental anthropological needs.
Approximate Word count = 6837
Approximate Pages = 27.3
(250 words per page double spaced)
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