Long Day's Journey Into Night by Eugene O'Neill Flashcards
(15 cards)
Don’t be suspicious
Mary: It makes it so much harder, living in this atmosphere of constant suspicion
Edmund the piece of real estate
Jamie: If Edmund was a lousy acre of land you wanted, the sky would be the limit!
Jail is not a house
Tyrone: I’m not your jailor. This isn’t a prison.
Merge past, present, and future
Mary: The past is the present, isn’t it? It’s the future, too.
Mary feels lonely
Mary: You’re glad they’re gone. Then Mother of God, why do I feel so lonely?
Mary likes fog
Mary: I really love fog … It hides you from the world and the world from you
Mary hates foghorns
Mary: It’s the foghorn I hate … It keeps reminding you, and warning you, and calling you back.
Blame game
Tyrone: When you have the poison in you, you want to blame everyone but yourself!
Communication is key
Edmund: Stammering is the native eloquence of us fog people.
It seems to get unpleasant around here
Edmund: We don’t seem to be able to avoid unpleasant topics, do we?
Eugene’s fate
Mary: I let him die through my neglect.
Be grateful
Mary: You should be the last one to sneer - you, who, thanks to him, have never had to work hard in your life!
Happy only
Mary: I want to remember only the happy part of the past.
Things that happen
Mary: None of us can help the things life has done to us.
You cannot change
Jamie: You can’t change the leopard’s spots.
