Anna Christie is the story of a young prostitute who falls in love and dreams of starting a new life. Anna reunites with her estranged father and agrees to travel with him in his barge. On this barge she meets Mat Burke and falls in love with him. Her father does not approve of the fact that she wants to marry a sailor. But she is up against a lot more than just disapproval once she tells her father and her lover about her past. First performed in 1921, Anna Christie was a great success and won O’Neill his second Pulitzer Prize.