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General InformationPlaywrightEugene O'NeillYear1956GenreDramaRuntimeAct I: 60...
General InformationPlaywrightEugene O'NeillYear1956GenreDramaRuntimeAct I: 60 minutes, Act II: 50 minutes, Act III: 70 minutes, Act IV: 65 minutesSettingThe Tyrone's summer home in New England. The action takes place over the course of a single day, from morning to late at night.CharactersJames TyroneJr. (Jim) - James Tyrone's illegitimate son by an Irishwoman; an alcoholic and morphine addict, and in love with Mary; he's around 30 years old. * James Tyrone - a successful Irish-American actor, patriarch of the family; his wife, Cora, is Puerto Rican; he's around 60 years old. * Cora Tyrone - James Tyrone's second wife, a former stage actress; she's around 40 years old. * Edmund Tyrone - James Tyrone and Cora's legitimate son by marriage (Cora's child), a college student; he's around 20 years old. * Cathleen - the Tyrone family's Irish maid and cook; she's around 50 years old. * Dr. Cormack - a local doctor who attends the Tyrone family; he's around 70 years old. * Centuries-old Elizabeth Proctor - the ghost of a Puritan woman who committed adultery and was hanged for it centuries ago; she's a mute spirit and can only be seen by James Tyrone Sr. and JrSynopsisAct IThe play opens with James Tyrone, Jr., waking up from a drugged stupor. He wanders into the living room where his stepmother, Cora, is reading a letter from their son Edmund, who is away at college. Jim asks Cora for money to buy more morphine, but she refuses. Meanwhile, James Tyrone Sr., who is offstage in the kitchen, eavesdrops on his family's conversation. He then joins the others in the living room and chastises Jim for his addiction, but also borrows money from Cora to give to his son. James Sr., Cora, and Jim then leave for a local fair. Edmund returns home from college for the summer vacation and greets Cathleen, the family's Irish maid, who informs him that his parents have left for the fair without him. Mary, Edmund's sweetheart who had been away at a summer camp, joins Edmund in his room upstairs. They passionately kiss and reaffirm their love for each other, not realizing that Jim is watching them from outside the window. Mary then heads downstairs as James Sr., Cora, and Jim return home with two carnival prizes—a kewpie doll and a harmonica—for Edmund. Mary tells Edmund that she has overheard Jim boasting to someone named "Fogarty" about how he has seduced a local girl named "Nellie," which Edmund reacts to with surprise and dismay as he had been led to believe that Jim was impotent due to syphilis infection which he contracted as a child. Cora is angry with James Sr. for buying Jim a harmonica which she believes will encourage him to play music again (James Jr., an alcoholic and morphine addict, had been playing harmonica as a way to numb his pain). She storms off to her room in a fit of anger while James Sr., Jim, and Edmund discuss their family issues over a game of cards. Edmund questions his father about why he had left his legitimate son by marriage (Edmund) to be raised by strangers while he raised his illegitimate son (Jim) with his wife (Cora). James Sr. defends himself by saying that he had done so because he had been cheated out of his inheritance by his own legitimate father and stepmother and that he had only married Cora for her Puerto Rican passport so that he could return to America after being exiled for drunkenness and womanizing by his own family back in Ireland. Jim then takes James Sr.'s drink and throws it into the fireplace in front of him before storming out of the room and upstairs to his own room next door to Edmund's room where he plays his harmonica while James Sr., alone in the living room downstairs, broods over his past mistakes while drinking whiskey and smoking cigars. Cathleen then
