When this character realizes he has torn up a photo of his wife, a stage instruction compares the ensuing silence to “the room of a dying man where people hold their breath.” In a play, this man recalls leaving his hometown with the help of a loan from Mollie Arlington, the madame of a hooker shop. A miserable birthday party is compared to “the second feast of Belshazzar, with [this character] to do the writing on the wall!” This man bullies an old friend into taking a “walk around the ward” that is cut short when that friend pretends he was nearly run over by a car. A 45-minute-long monologue by this character explains his wife’s loving acceptance of his affairs drove him to kill her. After this character is arrested, Larry Slade snaps and orders Don Parritt to jump off a fire escape. For 10 points, name this salesman awaited by the regulars of Harry Hope’s bar in Eugene O’Neill’s play The Iceman Cometh. ■END■
ANSWER: Hickey [or Theodore Hickman; or Theodore Hickman]
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