In this character's last appearance, another character repeats the Swinburne line, "Let us go hence, my songs; she will nothear" to prove this character isn't paying attention.
In this character's last appearance, another character repeats the Swinburne line, "Let us go hence, my songs; she will nothear" to prove this character isn't paying attention. Stage directions note that this character's hands "are never still" and "oneavoids looking at them" since the Âfingers have been deformed by rheumatism. This character has a hallucination recallingMother Elizabeth's advice and plays an ugly rendition of a Chopin waltz ostage before her entrance in the last act, whenshe appears very pale with her hair braided into two pigtails and her wedding dress draped over her arm. She oftften complainsabout the foghorn disturbing her sleep and recalls her failed dream of being a pianist or a nun to the family maid Cathleen. Thischaracter regrets breaking a promise never to have another child aftfter her second son Eugene dies as a baby when his brotherJamie intentionally gave him measles, and she stubbornly refuses to believe her son has tuberculosis aftfter returning from asanatorium to Âfight her morphine addiction. For 10 points, name this matriarch of the Tyrone family in Eugene O'Neill'sLong Day's Journey into Night.
In this character's last appearance, another character repeats the Swinburne line, "Let us go hence, my songs; she will nothear" to prove this character isn't paying attention.
Mary Tyrone [prompt on "Tyrone"]