Laura Wingfield in Tennessee William’s The Glass Menagerie is an interesting and complex character. She lives during the industrialized era of American history. During this time, business became cold and impersonal, and the living environments were often harsh, overcrowded, and dirty. This severe environment is difficult for Laura to deal with. She is delicate and fragile, both emotionally and physically. She does not know how to connect with people, and her incredible shyness isolates her from the people around her. Because of her inability to connect to the people around her, Laura separates herself from reality and finds solace in art, nature, and music. When her mother, Amanda, confronts her about skipping her classes at Rubicam Business
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Some aspects of Romantic writing include elevating the misunderstood or the outcast, stressing the awe of art in nature and language, along with believing that the urban society hinders the goodness within people (“Characteristics” 1). For example, these ideas are demonstrated through the nickname that Jim, Laura’s gentleman caller, gives her.
Since there is no such thing as a blue rose, the nickname gives the readers some insight into what Laura is like. It shows us that she is rare, delicate like a flower, and one of a kind. It also gives us some insight to Laura’s affinity for nature and flowers. It ties in with the Romantic concept because blue roses do not exist in real life and it demonstrates Laura’s desire for the transcendent, the things that are not realistic. Her nickname also represents Laura’s exclusive beauty and how she is like no other person Jim has ever met. Jim …show more content…
She realizes that she is outrageously shy. She realizes that she loves music and art, and that these things relax her. She understands that her brother and mother depend on the fantasies that they have fashioned for themselves. She is the peacemaker, and tries to provide emotional support to her family. Furthermore, near the end of the play after the unicorn’s horn is broken off, she realizes that she truly is ordinary, simply another human in a vast ocean of humans. She understands that things have changed for her, and that she will need to come to terms with the change in her personal thinking. Although the people around do not understand how to connect with her, Laura does what she can to try to make her mother happy. This shows up Laura’s selflessness, along with her willingness to please her
Some aspects of Romantic writing include elevating the misunderstood or the outcast, stressing the awe of art in nature and language, along with believing that the urban society hinders the goodness within people (“Characteristics” 1). For example, these ideas are demonstrated through the nickname that Jim, Laura’s gentleman caller, gives her.
Since there is no such thing as a blue rose, the nickname gives the readers some insight into what Laura is like. It shows us that she is rare, delicate like a flower, and one of a kind. It also gives us some insight to Laura’s affinity for nature and flowers. It ties in with the Romantic concept because blue roses do not exist in real life and it demonstrates Laura’s desire for the transcendent, the things that are not realistic. Her nickname also represents Laura’s exclusive beauty and how she is like no other person Jim has ever met. Jim …show more content…
She realizes that she is outrageously shy. She realizes that she loves music and art, and that these things relax her. She understands that her brother and mother depend on the fantasies that they have fashioned for themselves. She is the peacemaker, and tries to provide emotional support to her family. Furthermore, near the end of the play after the unicorn’s horn is broken off, she realizes that she truly is ordinary, simply another human in a vast ocean of humans. She understands that things have changed for her, and that she will need to come to terms with the change in her personal thinking. Although the people around do not understand how to connect with her, Laura does what she can to try to make her mother happy. This shows up Laura’s selflessness, along with her willingness to please her