Long Day’s Journey into Night
by Eugene O’Neill

Long Day’s Journey into Night: Setting 1 key example

Definition of Setting

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Setting
Explanation and Analysis:

Long Day's Journey into Night is set, in its entirety, on a sunny day in August 1912, in a house on a harbor in New London, Connecticut, on the coast of the Long Island Sound. The house is exactly modeled off of Monte Cristo Cottage, the summer home of James O'Neill, Eugene O'Neill's actor father. The house still stands at 325 Pequot Street in New London; the furniture remains in place as O'Neill describes in the play.