Odets understood his inner demon, which brought about the struggle of his temperament and conscience. He dramatized it in his last plays, Clash by Night, The Country Girl, The Big Knife, and The Flowering Peach. But he is also there in Lorna's description of Joe Bonaparte, the cockeyed golden boy, with his urge to power: "You're a miserable creature. You want your arm in gelt up to the elbow. You'll take fame so people won't laugh or scorn your face. You'll give your soul for those things. But every time you turn your back your little soul kicks you in the teeth. It don't give in so easy." Indeed it doesn't: when Joe, in training for a big bout, sees someone carrying a violin case, he turns pale and loses the fight he might easily have won.