A “Long Day’s Journey Into Night” is a tale of a day spent in the life of the Tyrone family at their summer home. The play begins at 8:30 in the morning, just after breakfast when Tyrone, the father lights up a cigar. We quickly learn that Mary, the mother, has returned to the family two months ago after being in a sanatorium for a morphine addiction. Edmund, the younger son, has begun to cough and Mary speculates it being a summer cold. We learn as the play goes on that he has tuberculosis as was expected by Jaime, the older brother. We quickly find out that Mary is still addicted to morphine. The plot of the story is driven by arguments. Each family member is constantly getting on each other’s nerves and drugging up regrets of old. Everyone blames Tyrone for being so stingy, which caused Mary's to go to a lesser physician, which may have led to her morphine addiction. Mary cannot even admit that she has a morphine addiction and keeps complaining about how good things use to be. Everyone keeps attacking the boys for not being more successful. The drinking and arguing keeps getting worse all the way to the end. Analyzing the play reveals certain cinematic devices implemented to affect the viewers response along with necessary non linguistic aspects exclusive to film format. The use of multiple cameras and switching angles can completely change the is the play is seen. Sound effects too can be added into a film production to bring a more dynamic aesthetic to the unseen parts of the production. Also a director can change the costuming if they please to take a more modern route or to stay with the time period. Devices used in the play were mainly the elements that made all of O’Neill’s directing from the script come to life. While reading the script the directing was distracting and made me wish the whole thing was written to be a novella instead. However when watching the play made small explanations like “Mary: Turns smili