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This essay analyzes the structure of conflict in Long Day’s Journey into Night. The story of the conflicting characters and of their contrasting journeys is the essence of the play. The symbolism of the four Tyrones shows O’Neill’s philosophy that life has a hope in hopelessness. In the end we feel that the Tyrone is bound together by ties of hate and love. On the surface, this play seems to declare that life is an inevitable progress toward the night. In the deep structure, however, Edmund tries to overcome the conflict and begins to see the light. In all the earlier plays, O’Neill had condemned others as an emotionally identified characters. In this play, however, he transcended his own earlier self. From this point of view, Long Day’s Journey into Night is not ‘journey into night’ but ‘journey into light’.
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Eugene O’Neill, a hope in hopelessness, homelessness, reconciliation, transcendence
