Falk on Tyrone and Success
The tragedy of Tyrone is that, like other extremists, he has sold his soul for the illusion of success
Falk on genre
A tragedy with four heroes
Brustein on the past
Each, nevertheless, haunts the past like a ghost, seeking consolation for a wasted life
Sewall on truth
It is as if the truth has had to wait until every other route…has been exhausted.
Carpenter on Tyrone
The father embodies the qualities of a petty dictator
Chothia on Mary
Mary’s wedding dress is an emblem of her lost girlhood and her reproach to Tyrone .
Waugh on Mary
Of all of them, she is arguably the most tragic
Waugh on O’Neill
An attempt the excavate the past and lay rest to the familial ghosts that followed him through his adult life.
Brustein on connected family
A single organism with four branches, where a twitch in one creates a spasm in another.
Bogard on Tyrone
Tyrone buys bad real estate to purchase he security he cannot find
Mambroi on the fog
The fog enhances the tragic sense of unity, enclosure and isolation for the Tyrone’s
Fathima -Freud
The Tyrone family suffer from what Freud called the pleasure principle, the instinctive search for pleasure over pain.