... days were and how we miss them terribly. In the sorrowful play, "Long Day's Journey into Night" written by Eugene O'Neill, the symbolic Tyrone family of Mary, James, Jamie, and Edmund find themselves wandering through their pasts and causing a decaying effect on the present. James Tyrone, the Irish father, is ... found himself trying to earn as much money as he possibly could. He decided to make a living by playing the lead role in the "The Count of Monte Cristo" which produced a huge income for Mr. Tyrone. Throughout his whole life James never really used his money, and so it just sat r...

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... personal struggles have also seemed to recapitulate the universal problems of man's "long journey" through all times and places. The tragedy of his life is related not only to the dramatic tragedies which he wrote, but to the archetypes of human tragedy" (Carpenter, 7). He was born into a theatrical family, for his father was The Count of Monte Cristo. He, his older brother, James, and his ... mother traveled together on their father's tour. "The first and deepest unhappiness of his life was that of homelessness-both psychological and physical." This was cause by his ... Irish immigrant...

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