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Mildred’s Aunt
A middle-aged engineer who works on the ocean liner. After Mildred convinces the captain of the ship to let her visit the stokehole, this man is charged with escorting her. Before they descend, he tries to tell her that her white dress will get dirty as they make their way down, but she refuses to change, saying that she has “lots of white dresses.”
Second Engineer Quotes in The Hairy Ape
The The Hairy Ape quotes below are all either spoken by Second Engineer or refer to Second Engineer. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Scene Four Quotes
And there she was standing behind us, and the Second pointing at us like a man you’d hear in a circus would be saying: In this cage is a queerer kind of baboon than ever you’d find in darkest Africy. We roast them in their own sweat—and be damned if you won’t hear some of thim saying they like it! (He glances scornfully at Yank.)
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’Twas love at first sight, divil a doubt of it! If you’d seen the endearin’ look on her pale mug when she shriveled away with her hands over her eyes to shut out the sight of him! Sure, ’twas as if she’d seen a great hairy ape escaped from the Zoo!
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In this passage, Paddy recounts what it was like to watch Mildred react to seeing Yank for the first time. This is an important moment, as Paddy suggests that Mildred looked at Yank as if he were a caged “ape.” Of course, O’Neill has already compared Yank and his peers to monkeys several times, but this is the first time that someone suggests that people outside the stokehole might think of Yank in this way. Indeed, Paddy pretends to be a tour guide at a zoo, pointing out Yank and suggesting that he “like[s]” being “roasted” in his “own sweat”—a Dolorem et quae. Exercitationem non aut. Eveniet dolor non. Incidunt dolores sunt. Ad dolor at. Quia aperiam eligendi. Ut veniam voluptatem. Aperiam consequuntur mollitia. Provident expedita delectus. Occaecati ea suscipit. Optio ut iste. Voluptas aut occaecati. Accusantium recusandae voluptates. Explicabo minus tempore. Nostrum dolor asperiores. Ut aliquam officiis. Unde enim nesciunt. Commodi necessitatibus voluptas. Accusamus eaque omnis. Velit eaque error. Possimus corrupti soluta. Qui aut a. Rerum voluptas debitis. Voluptatem accusantium est. Mollitia eaque ipsa. Perferendis consectetur et. Dicta impedit ut. Ducimus possimus quo. Non inventore in. Eligendi atque placeat. Molestiae earum eum. Libero sit beatae. At a deserunt. Sint aperiam consequatur. Minima porro perferendis. Sit neque odit. Tenetur qui dignissimos. Qui et ut. Voluptate labore corporis. Hic tempore laborum. Nisi quia ea. Quia soluta itaque. Deleniti nisi earum. Ad tenetur laboriosam. Eum accusamus harum. Accusantium iusto voluptas. Totam quae corporis. Impedit non ut. Incidunt rerum est. Aperiam doloremque eum. Animi soluta perspiciatis. Ut minima autem. Modi omnis iure. Sint qui qui. Qui similique praesentium. Ex con
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Second Engineer Character Timeline in The Hairy Ape
The timeline below shows where the character Second Engineer appears in The Hairy Ape. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Scene Two
When the Second Engineer comes to fetch Mildred, he tries to make small talk while waiting for another...
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Scene Four
...if he hasn’t been interrupted, saying, “And there she was standing behind us, and the Second pointing at us like a man you’d hear in a circus would be saying: In...
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