After reading Long Days Journey into Night, by Eugene O’Neil I feel a great sense of sorrow for the family. In one day with the family you are taken through their past, present, and their future. The tragedy in this family might seem small in some aspects because in our society today families could potentially have many more problems, but at the time of this story a family going through such issues was unheard of.
I think that if the family were under different circumstances such as if there was a daughter present their entire lives would have been different. Each family member would have different feelings toward one another than they did. Everyone would all be affected not only as a family member but an individual. I’m not sure where a daughter would have to fall in order of age with the children, but I think that no matter where it was, the outcome of this family would be drastically different.
Consider Mary, if she had a daughter before Jamie many things could......
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