Glass Menagerie or Long Day's Journey - which family was more screwed up?

[latheatrelover]

Posted: 8/12/06 at 2:58am

Of the two classics, The Glass Menagerie and Long Day's Journey Into Night, I think the latter had the more messed up family.

Which do you choose?

And which do you think is the more powerful play? Much as I love Menagerie, the story of the Tyrones is to me the stronger.

[The Distinctive Baritone]

Posted: 8/12/06 at 3:10am

A non-musical theater question? What is this? Who are you?

J/K...honestly, I have not seen "Long Day's Journey" but I know the basic premise...they sound more messed up than the Wingfields. Honestly, I don't think the Wingfields have it too bad. An introvert with a limp? A neurotic mother? A father who left when the kids were little? Welcome to America.

[gustof777]

Posted: 8/12/06 at 3:14am

haha yeah I was gonna say I'm gonna go with Long Day's Journey because The Wingfields just feel like my family lol. I think for that reason I would say Glass is the stronger play although Long Day's is amazing! Glass just REALLY hit me hard and I fell for it. It remains my favorite play with The Pillowman a close second

[AC126748]

Posted: 8/12/06 at 7:31am

While The Glass Menagerie has closeted homosexuality and physical deformities going for it, The Tyrones are definitely more screwed up. I mean, Amanda Wingfield never told Tom that she wished he was never born, like Mary tells Edmund in Long Day's Journey.

[Unknown User]

Posted: 8/12/06 at 8:50am

The Winfields on stage are a smaller family than the Tyrones, but Amanda Winfield is more screwed up than all the Tyrones put together :) These two plays are actually my two favorite plays with Streetcar running a close 2nd. Maybe it's the audience that is the most screwed up