The importance of Edmund.

Every family has a glue that keeps them together. The Simpsons have love and viewers, the Kardashians money, the Brady Bunch the 70’s and the Tyrones have Edmund.

Edmund is one of the characters of the play Long day’s journey into night by Eugene O’Niell.

The play is about the tragedy of a family which integrants are tormented by different problems and addictions, and they attempt to feel normal through a performance.

The play has so many aspects that goes from the lack of interest for each other to the fact that any of them wants to take the responsibility for their mistakes, that is impossible not to pay extra attention to Edmund.

In the middle of all the drama this character is kind of the victim. Maybe is just that he was doomed from birth but all the problems around him seems to find the inflection point in him.

Even though I always try to find the flaws in every character in a play like this, I just conclude that Edmund is a victim of the circumstances. Furthermore he is essential to the story giving the idea that the other characters are human and that is because he is trigger for all the family members but they all see more identifiable.

He brings the poetry into the play and his attempt to transcend using poetry in his speech gives them one of the unforgettable parts in the play.

Beyonds that he use poetry as a way to survive and that represents all the artist in their own dysfunctional backgrounds.

Edmund is sick and he is an alcoholic, but besides that everything else about him is so dark, deep and melancholic that is impossible not to fall in love with his character.