Interpretations: Long Day's Journey Into Night

No dramatist to this day, among us, has matched O'Neill in depicting the nighmare realities that can affict American Family life, indeed family life in the twentieth century Western world.. The helpnessness of family love to sustain, let alone heal, the wounds of marriage, of parenthood, and of sonship, have never been so remorselessly and so pathetically portrayed, and with a force of gesture too painful ever to be forgotten by any of us. New Book