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The Tyrone family is battling illness. Mary Tyrone has just returned home after treatment for morphine addiction, and Edmund has had a cough ever since he’s been home for the summer. While Mary is in denial about the severity of Edmund’s illness, Jamie and Tyrone have accepted the reality of how sick Edmund really is. Now father and son are left alone, and Jamie forces Tyrone to admit what he knows--which prompts another argument between them.
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Jamie: He thinks it’s consumption, doesn’t he, Papa?
Tyrone: (reluctantly) He said it might be.
Jamie: (Moved, his love for his brother coming out.) Poor kid! God damn it! (He turns on his father accusingly.) It might never have happened if you’d sent him to a real doctor when he first got sick.
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Tyrone: The less you say about Edmund’s sickness, the better for your conscience! You’re more responsible than anyone!
Jamie: (stung) That’s a lie! I won’t stand for that, Papa!
For full extended scene, please refer to clips or the script edition cited here: Eugene O’Neill, Long Day’s Journey Into Night, Yale Books, 2002, pp. 30-35.
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