Long_Days_Journey

Long Days Journey The play Long Days Journey into Night creates a world in which communication has broken down. One of the great conflicts in the play is the characters' uncanny inability to communicate despite their constant fighting. For instance, the men often fight amongst themselves over Mary's addiction, but no one is willing to confront her directly. Instead, they allow her to lie to herself about her own addiction and about Edmund's illness. Edmund and Jamie do not communicate well until the last act, when Jamie finally confesses his own jealousy of his brother and desire to see him fail. Tyrone, likewise, can only criticize his sons, but his stubborn nature will not allow him to accept criticism. All the characters have bones to pick, but they have trouble doing so in a constructive fashion. Most of the bones that need picking emerge in the past, which is remarkably alive for the Tyrone’s. Mary in particular cannot forget the past and all the dreams she once had of being a nun or a pianist. Tyrone too has always had high hopes for Jamie, who has been a continual disappointment. All the conflicts and the problems from the past cannot be forgotten, and, play, long, days, journey, past, one, family, tyrone, jamie, conflicts, characters, unique, tyrone’s, own, night, future, forget, continually, communicate, cannot, bound, bones, because, back, allow, addiction, about, world, willing, until, uncanny, trouble, tragic, towards, time, themselves, success, stubborn, sons, sliding, seen, seem, scholars, repeated, remarkably, remained, remain, relived, reflected, realization, reader