In Mourning Becomes Electra -- a trilogy consisting of the plays Homecoming, The Hunted, and The Haunted -- Eugene O'Neill transplants the Greek myth of Orestes into Civil War-era New England. Mourning Becomes Electra tells the tale of the cursed Mannon family which is thrown into turmoil when General Ezra Mannon returns a hero from the Civil War only to be murdered by his wife Christine who has been having an affair with Captain Adam Brant. The general's two children, Lavinia and Orin, take revenge on their mother and her lover but afterwards find themselves overwhelmed with guilt. Eventually, Orin commits suicide, and Lavinia boards herself up in the family's decaying mansion, resigned to spend eternity with the doomed Mannon ghosts.