MY DAYS OF ANGER by James T. Farrell is the fourth volume in the "Danny O'Neill" series of 5 volumes, following A WORLD I NEVER MADE; NO STAR IS LOST; and FATHER AND SON.  Most critics have suggested that the author had intended the O'Neill series to balance out Farrell's better-known STUDS LONIGAN trilogy, in which Danny O'Neill is a minor character.  While STUDS LONIGAN also portrays the struggles of the working class American-Irish families in Chicago in the early 1900s, and the constant attraction of criminal activities to which Studs Lonigan is regularly drawn, the "Danny O'Neill" series was intended to provide a contrast against the hopelessness into which Studs had fallen -- that Danny O'Neill could utilize his intellect to fight against the poverty which surrounded him, and rise above his surroundings to escape the "world I never made."  This fourth volume begins in 1924 and concludes in 1927 -- Danny O'Neill has graduated from high school in Chicago, and is now attending college, while working at a series of largely "dead-end" jobs."  These are years of confusion and challenge for Danny, as he is now fully confronted with the realities of the Irish American poverty into which he had been born, and the hypocrisies with which he had been raised by his family, his teachers and his religion; and Danny begins hungrily questioning all his former beliefs, and striking out against what he had been previously taught was the "proper" viewpoints on politics, labor, religion and love.

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