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Addiction: Long Days Journey Into Night

Addiction: Long Days Journey Into Night
"Long Days Journey into Night" is a play written by Eugene O'neill. The story is about one day in the life of the Tyrones, a dysfunctional family who are all addicted to something in their own way. Each of their addictions feeds another member of the familys addiction.
Mary Tyrone makes the transition from normal to addicted most clearly through the play. In Act I, her hands shake, and she is very nervous. When she appears in Act II "one notices no change except that she appears to be less nervous, … but then one becomes aware that her eyes are brighter and there is a peculiar detachment in her voice and manner" (O'Neill 58). These small signs of her falling back to morphine addiction continue until the end of the play, where she is obviously under the influences of morphine. The morphine seems to make her remember the past often. In Act III, she talked about her two childhood dreams of becoming a concert pianist or a nun. By Act IV, she......


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