Long Day’s Journey into blog

     I know I am the guy who usually obsesses over the ambiguous endings of many of our modernistic stories, but there really nothing left up to interpretation.  O’ Neill delves deeper into the inner physch of his characters.  The physch of many of O’Neill’s character are all evaluated.  Whether it be Tyrone’s love for his wife versus her addiction and how it affects his family to Jamie love for his brother even though his parents hold his brother on amuch loftier shelf then him.  Of Course, there is also Eugene’s mother, a dope fiend, as Eugene calls her.  Eugene’s mother is the most intriguing because not only does the clock keep track of time during the play but the state of Mary’s drugged up state increasingly gets worse as the play goes on, till eventually get to the white ghost scene where Mary is drugged out that she doesn’t even recognize her own family.  Mary drugged stupor introduces many other attributes of modernism such as  a restructuring of literature for those times when Mary would go off on a flashback of past times with a demenor to suggest that she is detached from reality.  Many attributes are wrapped into this story because of the physcological problems of the whole family. 

         In one of the sources I found on Long Day’s Journey into Night, titled “The Fog of Substance abuse”, they link Mary’s addiction not as a reason to dull the pain and not as a way to escape from her family but as a way to escape what her life has become over the time she has lived with Tyrone.  A symbol of Mary’s addiction is her hands and the rheumatism that plagues them.  Shes sees her hands going from young, beautiful, and useful to old. ugly and useless.  At first the morphine was for the pain of the rheumatism but now it is used to make her hands and in some instances her life seem younger and more beautiful.  This is what causes her dive into her dillusional state and helps time move smoothly in the story.

Ms. Baz, if you want to view my source . . .