![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() O’Neill himself first noted the idea in his Work Diary on June 25, 1939. Two O’Neill plays follow chronologically from Long Day’s Journey: The Straw, which depicts O’Neill’s stay at the Gaylord Farm Sanatorium in 1912–13, and A Moon for the Misbegotten, about Jamie’s last months before drinking himself to death.Ī diary entry made by O’Neill’s wife Carlotta Monterey O’Neill on June 21, 1939, is the earliest known mention of the play. Much of what O’Neill describes in Long Day’s Journey is true to his life, including his bout with tuberculosis, his mother, Ella’s addiction to morphine, and his brother, Jamie’s debilitating alcoholism. The Tyrone family of the play is based on the O’Neills-his father, James O’Neill mother, Mary Ellen “Ella” O’Neill older brother, James O’Neill, Jr. The play’s action takes place over a single day in August 1912 in the sitting room of O’Neill’s family home, Monte Cristo Cottage in New London, Connecticut. Perhaps the most startling facet of O’Neill’s greatest achievement is the ghostly presence of its author, a revelation to audience members attending its American premiere at the Helen Hayes Theatre, New York City, in 1956, three years after his death. Critical Analysis of Eugene O’Neill’s Long Day’s Journey into Nightīy NASRULLAH MAMBROL on SeptemĮugene O’Neill’s full-length masterpiece Long Day’s Journey into Night is widely considered the finest play in American theater history. ![]()
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