Considering humans are seldom perfect, it is expected that every family has experienced some degree of difficulty. The wounds that often result from fractured family relationships is most aptly encapsulated in Eugene O’Neill’s largely autobiographical Long Day’s Journey into Night, where he reveals a broken and deteriorating family and slowly unravels the unfortunate circumstances that shaped the unstable relationships between the members of the family. Through this revelation, O’Neill paints a picture that is fair and unbiased but difficult to accept—that fractured family relationships are often the fault of all those involved, rather than the consequence of the actions of a sole individual. The members of the Tyrone family all have dark