"A Long Day's Journey into Night"

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This paper discusses the play by American playwright, Eugene O'Neil "Long Day's Journey into Night." The paper focuses on how O'Neil encompasses themes of family love and compassion in this autobiographical play.

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"This connection through denial, love, and addiction is also seen between mother and sons. At one point, Mary is seen, like Jamie, refilling the liquor bottle with water to keep the level the same. The family 'trick' keeps up appearances for both characters. This sameness in protective mechanisms of addiction seems both touching as well as tragic-both child and mother protecting one another from one another's knowledge, through the same 'hiding' behavior, as if heredity creates both the hideous and debilitating nature addiction and the protective, loving mechanism to cover up the addiction from the family."

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