Long Day's Journey Into Night: Difference between revisions

* [[It Was His Sled]]: {{spoiler|Morphine. Alcoholism. Tuberculosis. James (most likely) accidentally killed his infant brother. Edmund is Eugene O'Neill.}}

* [[Lampshade Hanging]]: "What a bastard to have for a father! Christ, if you put him in a book, no one would believe it!"

* [[The Disease That Shall Not Be Named]]: Literally. Edmund tries not to speak about his illness, as he believes it could be his mother's final breaking point.

* [[The Ophelia]]: Mary, especially in the last scene. Mostly due to the {{spoiler|morphine}}.

** '''James''': The mad scene. Enter Ophelia!

* [[Write Who You Know]]: Where to begin? Everyone is directly based on his real family and even share their first named: O'Neill's father was a famous [[Melodrama]] actor named James; his addict mother's first name was Mary, although she went by Ella; and his older brother was James Jr (Jamie). There's even a fleeting reference to the dead infant son being named Eugene-- essentially O'Neill swaps names with Edmund the [[Author Avatar]], the actual name for his dead sibling.