ENGC13H3 Lecture : Long Day's Journey Into Night
Document Summary
We talked about central themes in the play. All of these are intertwined can"t really separate all of them we have to take other issues into account. Mary and tyrone come into the living room walk in on their sons discussing something unknown. They talk about what their sons could be talking about. Mary doesn"t like mcguire, and tyrone addresses his own individual decision of dealing with mcguire people in america. Tells us a little about family"s relationship to ireland & own relationship to other irish. Themes of addiction james is addicted to consumerism. We have a class system within the irish. What makes lonigans and tyrones similar is that they"re both on the edge james. Tyrone constantly thinks about the poor house they are not that far off from the experience of poverty.
