Eugene O'Neill was arguably one of the greatest American playwrights of the 1920-1950 era.
Long Day's Journey Into Night is one of his more mature works and in my judgment has already earned its place as one of the handful of great American dramas written within the last hundred years.
(The others that immediately come to mind are Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller, A Streetcar Named Desire and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams.)
LDJIN is the tragedy of Tyrone family – mom (Mary), dad (James), and two grown up boys (Edmund and Jamie). Four flawed characters with crippling shortcomings.
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