Moreover, all the men serve the upper classes upon the Ocean Liner, like the young woman Mildred and her aunt. Mildred, a child of a wealthy industrialist, idealistically talks about helping men like Yank. But Mildred faints and calls Yank a filthy beast when she sees him in the flesh, which cause the men on the ship to mock Yank, now that Yank has lost his assumed superiority.
When Yank is later jailed, he learns the Mildred's father owns the company that built the cell he imprisoned in. even though Yank can bend the bars of the cage, he cannot escape. The play shows that the...
But even when Yank tries to join the Wobblies or the Industrial Workers of the World, he is rejected because of his inability to control his temper. Yank dies at the hands of a real ape, showing that even Yank's perceived physical dominance does not hold sway in raw nature, and that reverse Darwinism is frightening as well as straightforward Darwinism in life, as the lower, physically superior beast kills the man.
