Long Days

Title: Long Days
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 794 | Pages: 3.4 (approximately 235 words/page)

Long Days

In the play Long Day’s Journey Into Night by Eugene O’Neill, the Tyrone family is haunted not by what is present in flesh facing them, but by memories and constant reminders of what has been the downfall of the family for years. " No it can never be now. But it was once, before you-" (72) [James Tyrone referring to the Morphine addiction of his wife, Mary, which attributed to the undoing of the family]. …showed first 75 words of 794 total…

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…showed last 75 words of 794 total…actions and statements which had been done have forever affected the Tyrone family, albeit adversely. Throughout it all, however, Mary always tries to keep a positive view and disposition. The final verse of the play is Mary reflecting on the good in her life, which ultimately manifested into bad: "Then in the spring something happened to me. Yes, I remember. I fell in love with James Tyrone and I was so happy for a time." (176)

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