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Long Days Journey Into Night

Hiding from your problems only makes them worse. Each of the family members have ways of hiding and coping with the family’s and their own problems. Mary copes with her addiction to morphine by talking about times of the past when she was more happy, before she had Edmund and got addicted to the drug. Also, she hides from her problem but just taking more so she doesn’t have to live in reality. In Act 4, Mary says to Edmund “I must go upstairs I haven’t taken enough. I hope sometime without meaning it, I will take an overdose. I never could do it deliberately…” (pg. 123). This line shows that she is sick of living, and has given up. Tyrone copes with Mary’s addiction to morphine with alcohol, as soon as Mary gets more and more into her drug haze he immediately starts drinking, drink after drink so he doesn’t have to watch Mary in her drugged state sober. In Act 4 Tyrone says “Oh, we’re fools to pay any attention. it’s the damned poison. But I’ve......


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