The Glass Menagerie Setting Essay

Have there been that one or two people that affected your life in one way or another, and do you remember that story in your life? Well “The Glass Menagerie” written by Tennessee Williams in 1944 is a tale with many stories that are ties by family. The setting is the key to each one. The characters are also each independently living in a tale of their own even thought they are related. The time period is also a key to the story in the play. This is one of the most telling illusions that is being told. The word illusion is for the fact that the story being told from Tom the son as a memory. We find that out in the narrator’s monolog in the beginning. The setting well St. Louis is the setting even more so an apartment in St. Louis. This is where a lot of the characters personalities are seen. Tom to whom is angry and outspoken son, and is mad at the world. For what the story does not say. The setting is a cage he is trying to break out of like when he say ” I was at am opium bar and I am in the mob and my name is killer.”(Williams.T,1944, Act2) Though this is not reality he is using it an analogy of the free life he desires. The mom The apartment is a constant memory of the lost husband and how she does not want her children to windup like her with a seemingly unfit spouse. The daughter the apartment is a safe haven. She is disabled in some …show more content…
It can be a prison, memory, or a safe house. The boy becoming a man or the daughter finding her these are how the setting has affected the characters in the play. Their individual lives also affect each other in their lives from the movies and the park to school and the warehouse there is no one that doesn’t affect another. Though this play was a memory and distorted facts they still exist in the mind of the characters. So did the people in your life affect the outcome of where you are at