<Li> Scene 3: In the stokehole, Yank and the other firemen take pride in their daily work . Yank does not notice Mildred when she enters, and instead shouts threats toward the unseen engineer ordering the men to keep coaling the engines. The men stop to turn when she enters . Confused as to why they have stopped working, he turns to see Mildred; she is so shocked by his appearance that she calls him a filthy beast and faints . </Li> <Li> Scene 4: In the firemen's forecastle yet again . Yank is mulling over the incident in the stokehole . The other men try to understand his fury by questioning him and asking if he is in love . Yank is infuriated at Mildred for claiming that he resembles a hairy ape . He becomes enraged and tries to charge after Mildred in revenge . However, his men wrestle him to the ground before he can even reach the door . </Li> <Li> Scene 5: Three weeks later, on Fifth Avenue in New York, the ship has returned from its cruise . Yank and Long argue over how best to attack the upper class while admiring how clean the city is . Still obsessing with avenging himself against Mildred, Yank rudely accosts several churchgoers that come out into the streets as Long flees the scene . Yank punches a gentleman in the face and is arrested shortly thereafter . </Li> <Li> Scene 6: The following night at the prison on Blackwell's Island, Yank has begun serving a 30 - day sentence . Seeing the prison as a zoo, he tells the other inmates of how he wound up there . One of them tells him about the International Workers of the World and suggests that he think about joining . Enraged by the thought of Mildred and her father again, Yank starts to bend the bars of his cell in an attempt to escape, but the guards retaliate in force . </Li>

Character sketch of yank in the hairy ape