Glass is very fragile and easily broken, and so is the Wingfield family. Everyone in the Wingfield family gets their fragility shown in some parts of The Glass Menagerie. When Laura’s fragility is shown, a piece of her glass gets broken. Laura’s glass not only represents her fragility, but the fragility of her family.
At the beginning of The Glass Menagerie, Tom and Amanda were arguing which led to Tom exiting angrily slamming the door which made one of Laura’s pieces of glass break. Tom leaving is an example of his family’s fragility. Tom and Amanda have many conflicts, which lead to Amanda saying “You’re going to listen, and no more insolence from you! I’m at the end of my patience!” (Page 934). The fragile glass breaking is a symbol of Laura’s …show more content…
When Tom says he “Left Saint Louis… in my father’s footsteps,” it makes his family even more fragile because he is the father-figure, making all of the money and providing for the family. The fragility of Laura’s family is mostly caused by Amanda’s and Tom’s conflicts because it causes tension throughout the family. Laura’s disabilities and circumstances with having to deal with her mother’s and brother’s clashes and the situation with Jim have made her the most fragile person in the family, that is why she is the owner of the glass and not Tom nor Amanda. According to Roger B. Stein, “the glass menagerie itself, which embodies the fragility of Laura's world,” (Stein). When a piece of Laura’s glass breaks, her fragility is being let out that was trapped inside the glass. During The Glass Menagerie, every time something happened that showed Laura’s fragility, a piece of glass broke, showing the glass represents Laura because glass is fragile and she is …show more content…
The glass represents Laura’s fragility so when Jim leaves, it breaks Laura on the inside because she has had a crush on him since high school. Jim is the first person Laura has even opened up to, and she did that because she thought he liked her. Eventually, at the end of their night, Laura was crushed and got her heart broken by Jim which is why the glass was broken right before he left; the glass symbolized her being broken. Eric P. Levy wrote in his essay “Through the Soundproof Glass,” “Laura, hampered in life by a negative self-image, symbolized in Laura's case by the glass menagerie. For Laura, that self-image concerns fragility,” (Levy). Laura’s negative self-image was represented by her glass, specifically the unicorn that Jim broke. Laura saw herself as that unicorn because it was different and an outcast. When Jim broke Laura’s glass unicorn, Laura was eventually hurt by Jim because of his exit to getting back to his fiancé, Betty, which shows that every time a piece of glass breaks, Laura
At the beginning of The Glass Menagerie, Tom and Amanda were arguing which led to Tom exiting angrily slamming the door which made one of Laura’s pieces of glass break. Tom leaving is an example of his family’s fragility. Tom and Amanda have many conflicts, which lead to Amanda saying “You’re going to listen, and no more insolence from you! I’m at the end of my patience!” (Page 934). The fragile glass breaking is a symbol of Laura’s …show more content…
When Tom says he “Left Saint Louis… in my father’s footsteps,” it makes his family even more fragile because he is the father-figure, making all of the money and providing for the family. The fragility of Laura’s family is mostly caused by Amanda’s and Tom’s conflicts because it causes tension throughout the family. Laura’s disabilities and circumstances with having to deal with her mother’s and brother’s clashes and the situation with Jim have made her the most fragile person in the family, that is why she is the owner of the glass and not Tom nor Amanda. According to Roger B. Stein, “the glass menagerie itself, which embodies the fragility of Laura's world,” (Stein). When a piece of Laura’s glass breaks, her fragility is being let out that was trapped inside the glass. During The Glass Menagerie, every time something happened that showed Laura’s fragility, a piece of glass broke, showing the glass represents Laura because glass is fragile and she is …show more content…
The glass represents Laura’s fragility so when Jim leaves, it breaks Laura on the inside because she has had a crush on him since high school. Jim is the first person Laura has even opened up to, and she did that because she thought he liked her. Eventually, at the end of their night, Laura was crushed and got her heart broken by Jim which is why the glass was broken right before he left; the glass symbolized her being broken. Eric P. Levy wrote in his essay “Through the Soundproof Glass,” “Laura, hampered in life by a negative self-image, symbolized in Laura's case by the glass menagerie. For Laura, that self-image concerns fragility,” (Levy). Laura’s negative self-image was represented by her glass, specifically the unicorn that Jim broke. Laura saw herself as that unicorn because it was different and an outcast. When Jim broke Laura’s glass unicorn, Laura was eventually hurt by Jim because of his exit to getting back to his fiancé, Betty, which shows that every time a piece of glass breaks, Laura