Author(s)

Shen Jiahui ¹

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¹ Henan University, Kaifeng, Henan, China

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ABSTRACT

Long Day's Journey into The Night is called Eugene O'Neill's autobiographical drama. It is a day at James Tyrone's house and happens between the front and back of living room. At the heart of the story is his wife Mary Tyrone's drug addiction and his son Edmund Tyrone's illness. From the first to the last act, the fog grows thicker and thicker, and the family atmosphere changes from relaxed and hopeful to heavy, disappointed and suspicious. They deny, scold and repent each other. At last Mary falls into a fantasy world brought by drugs; Tyrone, Jamie and Edmund immerse themselves in alcohol. The future of the family is hazy. This paper mainly uses mirror theory to analyse the image of the other in the subject construction, especially in the relationship among four characters: Mary and Tyrone, Mary and Edmund, Tyrone and Jamie and Jamie and Edmund. So it arouses people's thoughts the relationship of self and the other.

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Shen Jiahui, The Application of Lacan's Mirror Theory to Long Day's Journey into the Night. Applied & Educational Psychology (2022) Vol. 3: 73-76. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/appep.2022.030310.

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