Long Day's Journey into Night
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A play about a family of four psychologically disturbed people reveals aspects of the author's own life.
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It's good at first, but by Act 3 all the themes have been developed and the rest of the play is simply digging in further to the already-established ruts.
This might be a play that really suffers in the reading as opposed to the performance.
Intense and harrowing. Realistic and hyper-realistic and melodramatic all at once. It was simultaneously impossible to and impossible not to feel compassion for the Tyrones. Their hyperactive emotions were hard to take. Each conversation would begin to seem too raw and overbearingly naked, but by the end of the speech it was too tragic not to believe. I felt I had to read this book sideways rather than head-on.
