The play, ?Long Day?s Journey into Night? is a play that tells a story about a family?s adventure through a day. This family had many personal and emotional problems along with problems with each other. Given the time this play went public, people could not believe what they was watching or reading because it was not along the traditional scheme. The theme and characterization of this play was about a mother and father …showed first 75 words of 537 total…

…showed last 75 words of 537 total…that this family has many unsettle issues with each other. The mother and father care a lot for each other and the father hated that she was so addicted to the painkillers. The older brother was jealous of his younger brother because of his achievements and the attention that his parents give him cause he was sick. The story has a pretty good ending having the family talking, although none of them was getting along.