Glass Menagerie or Long Day's Journey - which family was more screwed up?
Glass Menagerie or Long Day's Journey - which family was more screwed up?
latheatrelover
Stand-by Joined: 5/28/06
#0Glass Menagerie or Long Day's Journey - which family was more screwed up?
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.
#1re: Glass Menagerie or Long Day's Journey - which family was more screwed up?
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
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/8/04
#2re: Glass Menagerie or Long Day's Journey - which family was more screwed up?
Posted: 8/12/06 at 3:14amhaha 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
RIP Natasha Richardson. ~You were a light on this earth ~
#3re: Glass Menagerie or Long Day's Journey - which family was more screwed up?
Posted: 8/12/06 at 7:31amWhile 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.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#4re: Glass Menagerie or Long Day's Journey - which family was more screwed up?
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 
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