A SHORT SUMMERY OF THE TEXT:
The Hairy Ape written in eight short, abrupt scenes is an expressionistic tragic- comedy of modern industrial unrest. The hero is a mighty stoker called Yank and we see him first, stripped to the waist with the rest if his half naked companions in their stokehole. he can out course, outfight, outfeel them all, and he is proud, proud of his job as a stoker at the heart of the ship and glorious to think that he steel and coal and motion. we next see that an aristocratic lady the owner of the liner, looling on the deck and painting for sensation of going down into the stoke hole to see how the other half lives.
there she meets a man by the name of Yank. After her meeting she feels extremely fear by the sight of Yank. She calls hi hairy ape. hearing this Yank becomes very angry and promise to kill her. this situation makes him to the brink of madness. Yank who think he belongs to every thing now he feels he is nothing in the world as individual. He begins to search his identity. At the end if the play we see that he is killed by Glorilla and this is done by his searching for identity.