In the play "A Long Day's Journey Into Night", the author O'Neill shows the transition from day into night. O'Neill makes this shift to emphasize the action during the day and then to conflicts during the night. In the play the main characters have own conflicts and other members of the family's conflicts they must deal with. The family consists of James Tyrone (father), Mary Tyrone (wife), James Jr. (eldest son), and Edmund Tyrone (youngest son). The two main events the characters in the family struggle over throughout the long day are, Edmund's (youngest son) tuberculosis and the family member's struggle with drug addiction. Throughout the play the characters conflicts begin to rise as the day shifts into night. By showing the conflicts O'Neill mirrors the family's struggles with the transition from day into night

As the day begins one of the family's problems erupts. Edmund Tyrone has...