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SARA MELODY AND THE AMERICAN DREAM

Sara Melody Harford emerges as the protagonist of A Touch of the Poet and More Stately Mansions when the two plays are considered in sequence as one event. Cornelius Melody may be the star of the former play, but his wake begins the latter. Simon Harford, Sara’s husband, appears to be the central character in More Stately Mansions, but he is only an offstage character in A Touch of the Poet. Only Sara appears as a principal in both plays, and she embodies O’Neill’s theme that greed and materialism destroyed the promise of America. Her story, not Con’s, and certainly not Simon’s, who, among other things, is decidedly not Irish, personifies the title of the proposed Cycle: “A Tale of Possessors Self-Dispossessed.” An Irish immigrant and member of an oppressed class and ethnic group, Sara determines to rise and make it socially and economically in America through marriage to a rich Yankee. She also wants to wipe the sneer against her father from her prospective mother-in-law’s face.