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I’ve always hated this town and everyone...

Mary Tyrone

Long Day’s Journey Into Night

Eugene O'Neill

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Character
Gender
Female
Playing Age
Mature Adult
Style
Dramatic
Act/Scene
Act One
Time & Place
August, 1912, Tyrone’s summer home
Length
Medium
Time Period
Contemporary
Show Type
Play
Age Guidance
Thirteen Plus (PG-13)

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I’ve always hated this town and everyone in it. You know that. I never wanted to live here in the first place, but your father liked it and insisted on building this house, and I’ve had to come here every summer.

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End:

You’d never have disgraced yourselves as you have, so that now no respectable parents will let their daughters be seen with you.

For the full extended monologue, please refer to clips or the script edition cited here: Eugene O’Neill, Long Day’s Journey Into Night, Yale Books, 2002, pp. 45.

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