Fairytale isn’t necessarily the perfect word to describe this play written by Tennessee Williams, as a matter of fact it’s quite the opposite. There is no romantic ending in this memory play. Amanda
Wingfield is a single mother of her two children, Tom and Laura. They live in a small apartment and their father had left them several years ago. Laura has come to the age where her mother wants her to find a “gentleman caller” or in other words a man who she can have a future with. For Amanda, getting a gentleman caller was no struggle at all but in fact quite simple.
But now that it’s time for her disabled daughter to start a life it doesn’t seem so easy. The theme of The Glass Menagerie is Memory and while watching this production and …show more content…
The most important symbol in this play was Laura’s glass collection. One of the pieces to this collection was what looked like a common scissor tailed bird, but can stand for many things. The overall representation for the bird means that everything in this world can change in a heartbeat. With just the right move your whole world can come crashing down and shatter into a million little glass pieces. In the play it also shows all of the characters true colors and their overall nature. The glass also shows Laura’s fragility with her emotions due to her handicapped life and not being able to do as much as she would like. Laura deals with a childhood illness that makes one leg shorter than the other, so she is stuck in a brace. In scene three of the play Tom throws his jacket at the wall that has all of Laura’s glass collection on it and shatters some of it. It is stated, “With an outraged groan he tears the coat off again, splitting the shoulder off it, and hurls it across the room. It strikes against the shelf of Laura’s glass collection, there is a tinkle of shattered glass.Laura cries out as if wounded” (Williams 760). In this quote is says Laura calls out as if she is hurt even when she hasn’t been touched in any way. It says this because the …show more content…
For example, the plan to get Laura a gentleman caller. She was so set on getting her daughter a man to marry that she didn’t even think to pay attention to her son when he told her that Jim, the so called gentlemen caller, didn’t actually know the dinner was just a set up for him and Laura. She simply didn’t care because she was going to make it work anyway and when it didn’t, reality hit. Overall, the most important elements of this production were the structure and the symbolism that both reflected positively on the written script. The symbolism that was used along with the structure this production was put into stood out and contributed to the theme of Memory. The symbolism especially played a prodigious role in making this production so strong with its meaning. The general meaning being the difficulty of accepting reality even when it’s not all a person could hope for. This essay was essential because it helped get a better understanding of comparing a written script to a stage production. Along with recognizing and identifying symbols that had a deeper meaning than what they appeared. Analyzing all types of literature can help better anyone’s understanding of the purpose it
Wingfield is a single mother of her two children, Tom and Laura. They live in a small apartment and their father had left them several years ago. Laura has come to the age where her mother wants her to find a “gentleman caller” or in other words a man who she can have a future with. For Amanda, getting a gentleman caller was no struggle at all but in fact quite simple.
But now that it’s time for her disabled daughter to start a life it doesn’t seem so easy. The theme of The Glass Menagerie is Memory and while watching this production and …show more content…
The most important symbol in this play was Laura’s glass collection. One of the pieces to this collection was what looked like a common scissor tailed bird, but can stand for many things. The overall representation for the bird means that everything in this world can change in a heartbeat. With just the right move your whole world can come crashing down and shatter into a million little glass pieces. In the play it also shows all of the characters true colors and their overall nature. The glass also shows Laura’s fragility with her emotions due to her handicapped life and not being able to do as much as she would like. Laura deals with a childhood illness that makes one leg shorter than the other, so she is stuck in a brace. In scene three of the play Tom throws his jacket at the wall that has all of Laura’s glass collection on it and shatters some of it. It is stated, “With an outraged groan he tears the coat off again, splitting the shoulder off it, and hurls it across the room. It strikes against the shelf of Laura’s glass collection, there is a tinkle of shattered glass.Laura cries out as if wounded” (Williams 760). In this quote is says Laura calls out as if she is hurt even when she hasn’t been touched in any way. It says this because the …show more content…
For example, the plan to get Laura a gentleman caller. She was so set on getting her daughter a man to marry that she didn’t even think to pay attention to her son when he told her that Jim, the so called gentlemen caller, didn’t actually know the dinner was just a set up for him and Laura. She simply didn’t care because she was going to make it work anyway and when it didn’t, reality hit. Overall, the most important elements of this production were the structure and the symbolism that both reflected positively on the written script. The symbolism that was used along with the structure this production was put into stood out and contributed to the theme of Memory. The symbolism especially played a prodigious role in making this production so strong with its meaning. The general meaning being the difficulty of accepting reality even when it’s not all a person could hope for. This essay was essential because it helped get a better understanding of comparing a written script to a stage production. Along with recognizing and identifying symbols that had a deeper meaning than what they appeared. Analyzing all types of literature can help better anyone’s understanding of the purpose it