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Explore the Role of the Past in Long Day's Journey into Night Early on in Eugene O'Neill's play we can see how the past has had an incurable effect on the Tyrone family. Each character has had to endure their own sufferings, and most of these are related in some way to other family members. From an early age Tyrone was left by his father and so growing up to him was actually survival. He managed to help provide his small family with a bare minimum of food and clothing, and eventually started making a substantial amount of money through hard work. However, this success story has resulted in a permanent fault of character. Speaking of his childhood near the end of the play, he explains, "It was in those days I learned to be a miser ... Once you've learned a lesson, its hard to unlearn it" (p.129). The...

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