All God's chillun got wings, and Welded: Play Guide and Free Edition
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All God's chillun got wings, and Welded is catalogued by Project Gutenberg with author credits for O'Neill, Eugene (1888–1953).
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"All God's chillun got wings, and Welded" by Eugene O'Neill is a collection of plays written in the early 20th century. The volume pairs an interracial tragedy about a Black man and a white woman with an intimate marital drama between an artist and his actress wife. In the first play Jim Harris and Ella Downey struggle against racism, ambition, and psychological breakdown, while the second follows Michael Cape and Eleanor Owen testing love and art inside their marriage. The opening of the book tracks All God’s Chillun Got Wings from childhood to marriage: on a New York street corner, Black and white children play together as Jim and Ella form a shy bond that hardens into a fraught connection through adolescence and early adulthood. Years later, amid neighborhood hostility, Jim dreams of becoming a lawyer while Ella is exploited by a boxer; they wed under the glare of segregated onlookers and flee abroad, only to return to “face it.” In Jim’s family flat, tensions with his proud sister Hattie, a looming African mask, and Ella’s growing paranoia and self-loathing expose the couple’s isolation; as Jim studies for the Bar, Ella’s illness peaks—she brandishes a knife and, in a break, hurls a racial slur—leaving Jim shattered. When he fails the exam, Ella perversely rejoices and stabs the mask, and the pair collapse into a childlike, devotional pact. The beginning of Welded then shifts tone: in a Manhattan studio, playwright Michael Cape returns early to his wife Eleanor; they revel in a tender reunion, vow to stop wounding each other, and choose, for one night, love over work as their talk turns from his finished act to the story of their meeting.
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- Title: All God's chillun got wings, and Welded
- Author credits: O'Neill, Eugene (1888–1953)
- Catalogue language: English
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- American drama -- 20th century
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