In the play ‘Long Days Journey into Night’, O’Neil brings out the role of men and women in the society in the early twentieth Century.Feminism focuses on women and their roles as the society expects them.

1. May is described as a young, graceful woman although rheumatism has caused a lot of harm to her beautiful figure.

-The story focuses on motherhood and its importance in the family and the reliance on women for love especially wives.

-O’Neil portrays Mary has a woman full of troubles with a lot of difficulties and anxiety bringing out the troubles that women go through in their families

2. In the play, men are portrayed as the heads of the family, and women as a weaker sex, which represents the societies view on women.

-Gender stereotyping is evident in the play in which women are expected to behave in a certain manner, for instance making their men happy.

-Tyrone’s family is dependent on Mary for happiness “What is a man without a good woman ?s love?

3. O’Neil portrays his female character, Mary, as a weak, sorrowful, limited, and full of self-pity in comparison to men like Tyrone.

-However, he does not portray men’s sorrows in a similar manner demonstrating a gender bias.

4. O,Neil gives women power in the family as depicted in the way he portrays Mary in the ply as a mother and wife although her life didi not turn out the way she wanted since she lost her son.

-Mary tries to make her two sons happy and be a good wife to her husband and the Tyrone’s family cannot provide her with the love and respect that she needs, which gives her the power as the woman of the family.

-Men and women are expected by the society to express their emotions differently as portrayed by O’Neil. Mary is supposed to be loving to her family although she tends to well in her past.

-Sexuality is not of very importance to women in the Play By O’Neil as he portrays Mary as more sensual than sexual and unpredictable.

5. O’Neil shows the readers that there more in the society as women have the tools to become independent as men depend on them for love and care.”

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