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This 8 page paper discusses some of the psychological bases for the problems the characters face in O'Neill's "Long Day's Journey into Night." Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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is autobiographical and explores the psychological impact of past guilt on a family. Discussion The play follows is a close examination of the Tyrone family, a family based on ONeills
own (the characters have ONeills family members names), and as such is a close-up view of the pain that the playwright himself suffered ("Eugene (Gladstone) ONeill"). This play was so
painful and so personal that ONeill "would not allow it to be made public until after he was dead-preferably, not for decades after" ("Eugene (Gladstone) ONeill"). And no wonder; a
description of ONeills family is a description of the characters, with almost no alteration. James ONeill, the playwrights father, was a popular actor who made a career out of
playing the same character, the "Count of Monte Cristo"; critics "bemoaned the waste of his artistic talent, and, too late, he came to agree" ("Eugene (Gladstone) ONeill"). This self-absorbed actor
married Mary Ellen Quinlan, a convent-educated girl who was "ill prepared to marry an itinerant actor and became terribly isolated" ("Eugene (Gladstone) ONeill"). Ella, as she was known, became addicted
to morphine following Eugenes birth; and "ONeills older brother, Jamie, was pampered as a child and became utterly irresponsible, fixated on his mother, and was unable to accept any other
women but prostitutes" ("Eugene (Gladstone) ONeill"). These are exactly the same people that ONeill puts on the stage. We might legitimately ask why anyone would choose to put such
an incredibly difficult life on stage for the world to see, considering that watching the play would then be painful for all involved. There seems to be no answer to
this, except that it may perhaps have been a way for ONeill to exorcise the demons of his past. As noted, his father was a famous actor and as
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