Fall of A Family in Long day's journey into night

Fall of A Family in Long Day’s Journey into Night


The play Long Day’s Journey Into Night by Eugene O’Neill illustrates the typical American family in a new era by using the Tyrone’s family as an example. The family consists of four members. James Tyrone, the husband to Mary Tyrone. The couple has two sons, Jamie and Edmund. The constant and continuous quarrel in the family among family members is unusually a major part of their daily life. All the characters in the play are responsible for the emerging of theses conflicts in some ways or the other. For example, James’ stinginess not only leads to the failure of his acting profession but also creates others’ discontent and toward him; Mary is addicted to morphine and does not have the strength to withdraw herself. Even though there is underlying love persists in the family, the two brothers’ conflicts with Mary and James in particular contribute to the gradual breakdown of the family profoundly as well.
Mary Tyrone, ...