《进入黑夜的漫长旅程》是美国著名剧作家尤金.奥尼尔的代表作之一。在这部讲述家庭悲剧的剧作中,作者刻画了泰伦一家四个家庭成员鲜明的性格和不同的悲剧人生。其中,作为一家之主的詹姆斯.泰伦身上体现出了让人即憎恨又同情的矛盾的性格。而詹姆斯如此复杂矛盾的悲剧性格正是现代西方人异化的典型体现。本文试图通过马克思的劳动异化理论分析詹姆斯.泰伦异化的表现和原因,揭示了资本主义社会对人性的扭曲。 “The long journey into the night” is one of the masterpieces of Eugene O’Neill, a famous American playwright. In this drama about family tragedies, the author portrays the distinct personality and different tragedies of a family member of a family of four. Among them, James Taylor, the head of the family, embodies the contradictory characters that make people hate and sympathize. The tragedy of such complex and contradictory characters of James is the typical manifestation of modern Western alienation. This paper attempts to analyze the performance and causes of James Taylor’s alienation through Marx’s theory of labor alienation and reveals the distortion of human nature in capitalist society.