long day's journey into night

• Mary and James Tyrone


  Discuss Mary's weight gain, have a light argument about Tyrone's unwise real estate investments
• Mary is clearly concerned about Edmund's cough in the kitchen
• Tyrone tells Mary


  She needs to take care of herself, it's good to have her "old self again" since she "came back"
• Mary teases Tyrone lightly and he does not take it well
• Tyrone is convinced his sons don't respect him, as every time he hears them laughing in the kitchen he's sure they're making fun of him
• Both Edmund and Jamie seem awkward around their mother: eager to compliment, and afraid they might offend
• Tyrone doesn't find the story amusing, fears Shaugnessy might get him involved in a lawsuit, and accuses Edmund of exacerbating the situation
• Tyrone repeatedly tells Edmund to keep his "anarchist" and "socialist" comments to himself
• Sick of the abuse, Edmund goes upstairs in a fit of coughing
• Jamie lets out that Edmund seems to be really sick, but Mary insists it's just a summer cold and voices her distrust of doctors
• Mary is seized by a fit of nervousness when Jamie looks at her, thinking he's thinking about how she has faded
• Mary exits to supervise Bridget, their servant
• Tyrone is furious that Jamie risked upsetting Mary, but Jamie stands fast
• Jamie insists Edmund has consumption, but Tyrone defends his use of Dr. Hardy, saying he has treated Edmund since he was a child
• Tyrone blames Jamie for Edmund's sickness, saying Edmund is trying to live a lifestyle as wild and self-destructive as his brother's
• We infer that Mary is a morphine addict, recently recovered
• Jamie accuses Tyrone of being at fault for Mary's addiction, saying it started after Edmund's birth and in part because of an incompetent doctor
• Mary asks what Tyrone and Jamie were arguing about, and Jamie avoids answering truthfully
• Edmund and Mary have a tense conversation, avoiding real communication
• Mary admits to Edmund that she's never liked the house, done the cheap way, and that she has no friends to speak of and is terribly lonely
• Alone, Mary tries to relax but finds herself seized by terrible anxiety, which shows in her constantly moving hands