What is the plot of Eugene ONeills play Mourning Becomes Electra?
Characters in the play:James Tyrone is a famous actor.His wife Mary has been addicted to morphine for 20 years but a new supposedly “cured”.They have two sons-Jamie4,aged 33 who is also an actor although unsuccessful and drunkard and Edmund,aged 23,who is ill -possibly with tuberculous-after spending several years working on sailing ships,travelling the world and living rough.he is trying to be a writer.The play shows one day in the life of the Tyone family at their summer home on the north-east coast of the USA in August 1912.At the start of the extract Tyone and Jamie are discussing Edmund’s health.
