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This work is interesting enough for its history. Completed in 1940, Long Day's Journey Into the Night is an autobiographical play Eugene O'Neill wrote that--because of the highly personal writing about his family--was not to be released until 25 years after his death, which occurred in 1953. But since O'Neill's immediate family had died in the early 1920s, his wife allowed publication of the play in 1956. Besides the history alone, the play is fascinating in its own right. It tells of the "Tyrones"--a fictional name for what is clearly the O'Neills. Theirs is not a happy tale: The youngest son (Edmond) is sent to a sanitarium to recover from tuberculosis; he despises his father for sending him; his mother is wrecked by narcotics; and his older brother by drink. In real-life these factors conspired to turn O'Neill into who he was--a tormented individual and a brilliant playwright.
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"No play Eugene O'Neill ever wrote speaks more eloquently..." -- -- New York Herald Tribune
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You're a fine armful...,
By I. Allan (Ottawa, Ontario) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Long Day's Journey into Night (Paperback)
I am not one for reading very often except when my professors and teachers would assign the class books to read. I decided I would give this book a chance because it seemed small and was a play. I read this book from start to finish in a one day, and it was a wonderful piece of writing. The way the author depicted the family, was incredible. Each character had their own themes that affect the rest of the family. Mary is addicted to drugs and is still caught up with the death of her infant son Eugene which she blames on herself and James. The father Tyrone is very cheap and that played throughout the play whether it was not wanting to pay for his son's treatment or the measuring of the whiskey bottle before and after each drink.The oldest James deals with alcoholism and I believe a desire to have affection displayed toward him even though it is paid for. The youngest Edmund is sick with consumption and also battles with alcohol. Yet even though these themes cause the family to argue and fight often you still feel a sense of loyalty to each other. As the reader you want this family to pull though this dark time. We want Edmund to be able to get cured of his sickness and be healthy again, which will in turn help Mary over come her problem once again. But for that to happen we need Tyrone to pay some extra money for some quality help for his son and we would like James to succeed in acting and stop spending all his money. With this book being written sometime ago, it flows very well and is not hard to read at all. The language spoken between the family is easy to pick up on and before you know it, you're caught up in the book, as if you were a part of the family as well.
2.0 out of 5 stars
Long Day's Journey Into Boredom,
By Dr. Big Balls (Chicago, IL) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Long Day's Journey into Night (Paperback)
Convinced by my computer teacher to read this play, I checked it out in the library and read it in within days. The result: A very dissatisfied reader.Something like this won the Pulitzer Prize? If any of his plays should have won it (which a couple of them did), it should have been All God's Chillun Got Wings, not this pointless play. The family in this play was MUCH too dysfunctional. All they did all day (which the whole play was in one day) was argue and argue and argue. And when at times it seemed as if the arguing would end, one of the four characters said something that would spark up a new argument. Woe be to my computer teacher for suggesting me this book, for it bore me into tears.
1.0 out of 5 stars
Shallow and Uneventfully Dull,
By elbacari@worldpass.net (Miami, FL) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Long Day's Journey Into Night (Hardcover)
Why, pray tell, is this play so revered? It isthe most boring, over-hyped, and predictable play I have ever encountered. If you don't know everything that will happen by page five, there is something seriously wrong with you. If it were written particularly well, I could give it some slack--but, REALLY! Save your money and read some Tennessee Williams, who really IS America's greatest playwrite.
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