Long Day's Journey into Night | James and Mary Tyrone
James Tyrone
The sixty-five year old family patriarch, James Tyrone is a financially successful and handsome actor whose robust looks and bearing make him appear more youthful. His popular success has not spoiled him, partly because he is a self-made man from a poor immigrant Irish family deserted by his father. His resulting fear of poverty has turned him into a man obsessed with money and owning property, always looking for bargains, even at the expense of his family's health. From that same heritage comes a lack of snobbery and pretension. He wears clothes to "the limit...
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