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Long Days Journey into Nightby: Eugene ONeill Eugene ONeill Eugene O’Neill was one of the greatest playwrights in American history. Through his experimental and emotionally probing dramas, he addressed the difficulties of human society with a deep psychological complexity. O’Neill’s disdain for the commercial realities of the theater world he was born into led him to produce works of importance and integrity. Of his very few comedies, only one is well-known (Ah, Wilderness!). Nearly all of his other plays involve some degree of tragedy and personal pessimism Theme: The action of the work covers a single day from around 8:30 am to midnight, setting in a living room of a summerhouse in August 1912. In the play, the characters blame, resent and accuse each other in their daily life lead the conflict escalate. Alienation, isolation, loneliness, loss of faith, and illusion, all of those appeared in the play. The escape motif is also predominant. James, Jamie and Edmund all try to avoid the reality by getting drunk, Mary by having morphine and living in her illusory world. They are incapable of dealing with the world in which they live. . Character list James Tyrone Husband of Mary and the father of Jamie and Edmund Mary Tyrone The wife of Tyrone and mother of Jamie and Edmund Jamie Tyrone The elder Tyrone son, he is in his early thirties Edmund Tyrone The younger Tyrone son, he is ten years younger than Jamie James Tyrone James Tyrone is a vigorous, healthy man of sixty-five. His predominant trait, other than the fact that he drinks too much, is his miserliness, which is to blame for many of the family’s troubles. James refuses to spend money on their summer house to make it pleasant for his wife, and he tries to send Edmund to a state sanatorium just to save money. Although he is comparatively well off, James lives in fear of ending his days in poverty. quotes everything [is] done in the cheapest way (Act one.) James refuse to spend money on their house.