奥尼尔被誉为美国文学的常青树,而且在处女作问世后持续震荡着美国文坛。但在《送冰的人来了》发表之前,他却足足沉寂了12年之久。《送冰的人来了》是奥尼尔写作中的一次重大突变,它彻底撇弃了过去铺张实验特征的写法,注重于对当下不协调的或者说无法调和的人所面对的矛盾,从而使写作更加趋近于写实主义,让每一个人都矗立于自己为基点的宇宙坐标的中央舞台上。奥尼尔的戏剧天赋是公认的,但其更伟大的在于将哲学、文学 O’Neal is known as the evergreen tree of American literature, but also continued to shock the American literary world after the debut of the debut. However, he was fully silent for 12 years before the publication of “The Ice-Free Man Comes”. “The arrival of ice” is a major mutation in O’Neill’s writing that completely abandons the wording of past experimental features and focuses on the contradictions faced by uncoordinated and irreconcilable people at the moment Writing nearer to realism, everyone stands on the central stage of their own cosmic coordinates. O’Neill’s drama talent is recognized, but its greater value lies in philosophy and literature