Long Day
A detailed Summary of Long Day
William Faulkner said "The only thing worth writing about is the human heart in conflict with itself." I agree with this statement because self conflict is the most difficult type of conflict to resolve; one has to be his/her own mediator while fighting two battles at the same time. Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey into Night gives perfect examples of this through Mary Tyrone's conflict with being a morphine adict and a very unhappy wife. O'Neill uses irony to portray the disharmonic struggles she goes through.
Mary Tyrone is a mother of two and ironically a morphine addict as well. Her main disagreement takes place between her addiction and her desire to be a good mother and role model for her alcoholic sons, Jamie and Edmund. She is not able to give them the attention they need because of her obsession with morphine.

become a concert pianist, that was the other one.
done they make you do other things until at last
Mary, while talking about the doctors who originally 'prescribed' her with morphine, admits that the morphine disables her to do what she's like to such as taking care of her grown up children. Instead, she aids to her addiction, which takes away from being a good mother.
sent me to Europe to study after I graduated from the Convent. I might have
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Approximate Word count = 570
Approximate Pages = 2 (250 words per page double spaced)
Category: English
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