Ugly Hotel Room Analysis

Mary responds to change to “ugly hotel rooms” as she asserts she became quite used to it (113). She confesses to James she longs for change, “Oh, I’m so sick and tired of pretending this is a home! You never have wanted one never since the day were we married! You should have remained a bachelor and lived in second rate hotels and entertained your friends in barrooms! (67).
Later in the same act she regrets change again “for me it’s always been so lonely as a dirty room in one night stand hotel… I know from experience what a home is like. I gave up the one to marry you, my father’s home” (72) she perceives this change drastic. Her response to change is more heightened by the terrible changes in the life of the family, specially the birth and
Edmund is no less a victim of change, his worsening health (tuberculosis), his mother’s changing back to drugs, and changed family situation cause stress that result in an unreasonable state of anxiety and fear. His desire for forgetting change is clearly discernible, “Be always drunken. Nothing else matters: That is the only question. If you would not feel the horrible burden of Time weighing on your shoulders and crushing you to the earth, be drunken continually…” (132). For C.W.E. Bigsby O’Neill’s characters as caught in the decline, he regards “a theatre of entropy”
O’Neill’s plays dramatize change both the desire for and fear of it as traumatized experience that destroy life. The Title of the play, “Long Day's Journey into Night” shows change, which is recurrent and a routine. Change is existentially threatening, and leads the protagonists to display either resistance to change or a dire need for change. Day and Night and the cyclic changes, as represented by the progress of day to night, are one of the central symbols of Long Day's Journey. The Tyrones are caught in a similar cycle of change. They attack, they feel terrible, they make an apology, and they say something hurtful, they feel terrible; they make an apology, even the moods