"Long Day's Journey into Night"

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This paper analyzes O'Neill's work and how he tried, by incorporating aspects of everyday life into his writings, to describe the longing and tragedy that is inherently part of the human psyche. The paper looks at how "Long Day's Journey into Night" is a an example of how O'Neill incorporated his own life experiences into his writing in an effort to portray this aspect of life and then looks at how various literary critics have supported or refuted these ideas.

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"Winther (1961), one of O'Neill's earlier critics, suggests that O'Neill deals with tragedy from a universally appealing standpoint. O'Neill according to Winther, deals with the fall of man from prosperity into adversity in a manner "that is shocking and through causes that lie within man himself in relation to the outward forces o his world" (298). In Long Day's Journey into Night, O'Neill displays man as brought to disaster by "forces that are stronger than he is" (298). Mary for example, in his work Long Day's Journey into Night, struggles for years in a state of inescapable despair. In the work Mary is struggling to conquer forces of life she has no control over. Winther (1961) points out that each character has its flaw or failure, and is also a combination of his inner self and the circumstances of a world that is uncontrollable."

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