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Mr. O'Neill primarily teaches English (at Lawndale it is called "Language Arts") and also teaches an after-school course on Self Esteem, at which [[Daria Morgendorffer]] and [[Jane Lane]] meet. [[The Daria Diaries]] also have him teaching Drama ("Dramatic Horizons") and present English and Language Arts as separate subjects. He is shown to be well aware of a vast swathe of classic and seminal 20th century literature, such as [[Fair Enough|Canterbury Tales]], War and Peace, [[This Year's Model|Walden]], [[Write Where It Hurts|The Dharma Bums, Breakfast of Champions]], and [[Daria's Inferno|Dante's Inferno]], and uses them in his class - however, his ''grasp'' of the literature and their meaning seems suspect: in "[[Fair Enough]]", he asked the class why Tolstoy made War and Peace "so darn unpleasant" (and seemed thought-provoked when Daria joked it was so nobody would want a sequel).

Mr. O'Neill was gentle, soft spoken and ludicrously sensitive, very in touch with his emotions but incapable of controlling them. His English assignments were often ill-disguised attempts to get his students to express personal pain or experiences, and he himself would often cry in class. His ability to perform such simple tasks as remembering his own students' names was come and go at best. During the summer holidays, he ran the disastrous [[Okay To Cry Corral]].

Mr. O'Neill was gentle, soft spoken and ludicrously sensitive, very in touch with his emotions but incapable of controlling them. His English assignments were often ill-disguised attempts to get his students to express personal pain or experiences, and he himself would often cry in class. His ability to perform such simple tasks as remembering his own students' names was come and go at best during the first season. During the summer holidays, he ran the disastrous [[Okay To Cry Corral]].

In "[[Cafe Disaffecto]]", he said he identified with Daria's essay about "being a big misfit whom everyone hates" and "[[The Daria Diaries]]" have him say he identifies with Daria (see below). This implies interesting things about his childhood days.