Long Day’s Journey Into Night by Eugene O’Neill | Characters, Summary, Analysis

Eugene O’Neill won his first Pulitzer Prize in the year 1918 for his play Beyond the Horizon. Anna Christie was published in 1920, and it won his second Pulitzer Prize. He again won his third Pulitzer Prize in 1928 for Strange Interlude. He died on November 27, 1953. In 1956, he won a posthumous Pulitzer Prize for his play Long Day’s Journey into Night, making him the only author with four Pulitzer Prizes, along with his 1936 Nobel Prize for literature. He wrote and completed Long Day’s Night into Journey in the year 1941, but insisted that this play must not be published or made public until 25 years after his death. He did not even copyright this play. Soon after his death, his then-wife forced the play to be published and performed, and it proved to be the best work of Eugene O’Neill, which in fact, was an autobiographical play.

The play depicts the happenings of a single day from early morning to midnight in August 1912. The Long Day refers to the situations faced by the members of the Tyrone family and how they end up unresolved and unanswered. Long Day’s Journey Into Night is a tragedy, and it is considered one of the best American tragedies, along with Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire and Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman. All four members of the family are facing their own failures while they accuse each other and thus fail to find any affection, encouragement, compassion, tenderness, or a solution to their problems.
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