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Long Day's Journey into Night Notes and Summary
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2021ENG210: Long Day’s Journey
into Night by Eugene O’Neill
SUMMARY AND NOTES
TANEIL THOMPSON
UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA, 2020
, Taneil Thompson
DISCLAIMER:
PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS INFORMATION IS NOT MY OWN. IT HAS BEEN
SOURCED FROM VARIOUS SOURCES INCLUDING LONG DAY’S JOURNEY
INTO NIGHT BY EUGENE O’NEILL AND ?????. THIS DOCUMENT SHOULD
BE USED IN ADDITION TO LECTURES, LECTURE NOTES AND ANY OTHER
DOCUMENTS RECEIVED FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA. I DO NOT
TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR ANY INFORMATION THAT IS INCORRECT OR
NOT FULLY CORRECT. EXTRA INFORMATION SOURCED FROM ANYWHERE
BUT THE ABOVE-MENTIONED SOURCES WILL BE CLEARLY INDICIATED.
University of Pretoria, 2020
, Taneil Thompson
Setting
Act One
8:30am in August 1912 in the living-room in Tyrones’ summer house.
Act Two
Scene 1: 12:45pm
Scene 2: 13:15pm
Act Three
18:30pm
Act Four
Midnight
Characters
James Tyrone
- He refused to pay for a decent doctor to treat the pain that Mary
experienced during childbirth and is the reason that she became addicted
to morphine.
- Sixty-five, looks ten years younger (11)
- Five feet eight, broad0shouldered, deep-chested (11)
- Remarkably good-looking, big, finely shaped head, handsome profile,
deep-set light-brown eyes (11)
- Thin grey hair with bald spot like a monk’s tonsure (11)
- Simple, unpretentious man (11)
- Has Irish farmer forebears (11)
- Actor (11)
- Voice remarkably fine, resonant and flexible
- Doesn’t have nerves (11)
- Never really been sick (11)
- Stolid, earthly peasant mixed with streaks of sentimental melancholy and
intuitive sensibility (11)
- Smokes (13)
- Cunning real-estate speculator (13)
- The Old man (15)
- Papa (20)
- Great actor (25)
- One of the biggest property owners (26)
University of Pretoria, 2020
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