Eugene O’Neill was a prolific writer who wrote many plays before his death in 1953. His first produced play was Bound East for Cardiff in Provincetown, Massachusetts and then again in New York in 1916 where it helped build the reputation of the Playwrights’ Theater and himself (B. Gelb and A. Gelb). O’Neill’s prolific writing period lasted from 1920 and 1943 where he completed twenty long plays as well as a number of small ones (B. Gelb and A. Gelb). In addition to his early sea plays, O’Neill’s most well-known during this time were Emperor Jones and The Hairy Ape (B. Gelb and A. Gelb). However, O’Neill’s seminal work is viewed as being Long Day’s Journey into Night, which was published three years following his death (Churchwell). This work was special because it mirrored O’Neill’s own family as it depicted a family where the mother had a morphine addiction and the younger son had tuberculosis (Mandelbaum 127). O’Neill’s plays are most remembered for introducing psychological and social realism to the American stage as he fights to conquer his own problems and inner demons regarding his family (Churchwell).