In Eugene O'Neill's "Long Day's Journey into Night" written 1939–41 but set earlier in the century, the protagonist illustrates the cheapness and miserly ways o

In Eugene O'Neill's "Long Day's Journey into Night" written 1939–41 but set earlier in the century, the protagonist illustrates the cheapness and miserly ways of his father by complaining how always he's yelling people to turn off the unneeded lights. It sounded miserly to me, but running lights was more expensive than I realized.