In The Glass Menagerie, Tennessee Williams argues that the fragile nature of the American Dream makes easy to retreat from reality and begin living with illusory concepts.
Laura Wingfield lives in a world with her glass assortment of animal due to her broke dream of being a normal girl because of her reserved personality and crippled appearance. An instance where it is prominent Laura has no connection with reality is when she and Jim are talking about her glass menagerie in scene seven. Jim asks Laura what she is passionate about and she informs him she is most interested in her glass menagerie and proceeds to show him her collection of glass animals, but more importantly, her favorite of the collection, her unicorn. The unicorn is the only …show more content…
She is fragile, delicate and unique. Laura is particularly like the unicorn because just like her, is one of a kind and unlike the others. The idea that she has someone like her in this world comforts her, but it has extended to the point where she treats these animals as if they were alive. These glass animals are her only friends, so it has gotten to the point where she treats them as if they were humans who could walk, talk and have feelings. She is so broken inside that she can no longer see the line between her illusions and reality, because believing these glass objects are alive is the …show more content…
Shortly after that event, Laura and Jim were dancing around the room when they accidentally pumped the table. Laura’s favorite of the glass creatures, a unicorn, fell and the horn broke. At first she was astonished and did not know what to say, but then she said it was a blessing in disguise. Laura decided, “I’ll just imagine he had an operation. The horn was removed to make him feel less-- freakish!”(226).The unicorn in Laura’s eyes becomes what she has been wishing she was her whole life, to be just like the others. In her world of glass animals, the unicorn is the odd one out surrounded by horses. So, when the horn breaks she does not think of it as a terrible thing, because what has now set it apart from the others and made it unique is now gone. Laura is this unicorn, but the also means that in order for her to be normal, she must be shattered. She is the unique one out of all the horse, but she would do anything to be normal. In her world, normal is the best thing she could be. In the illusionary world she created for herself she feels safe and content because in said world she is regular. She is not the crippled shy girl or unique in anyway. She is weeds, not blue roses.
Laura Wingfield lives in a world with her glass assortment of animal due to her broke dream of being a normal girl because of her reserved personality and crippled appearance. An instance where it is prominent Laura has no connection with reality is when she and Jim are talking about her glass menagerie in scene seven. Jim asks Laura what she is passionate about and she informs him she is most interested in her glass menagerie and proceeds to show him her collection of glass animals, but more importantly, her favorite of the collection, her unicorn. The unicorn is the only …show more content…
She is fragile, delicate and unique. Laura is particularly like the unicorn because just like her, is one of a kind and unlike the others. The idea that she has someone like her in this world comforts her, but it has extended to the point where she treats these animals as if they were alive. These glass animals are her only friends, so it has gotten to the point where she treats them as if they were humans who could walk, talk and have feelings. She is so broken inside that she can no longer see the line between her illusions and reality, because believing these glass objects are alive is the …show more content…
Shortly after that event, Laura and Jim were dancing around the room when they accidentally pumped the table. Laura’s favorite of the glass creatures, a unicorn, fell and the horn broke. At first she was astonished and did not know what to say, but then she said it was a blessing in disguise. Laura decided, “I’ll just imagine he had an operation. The horn was removed to make him feel less-- freakish!”(226).The unicorn in Laura’s eyes becomes what she has been wishing she was her whole life, to be just like the others. In her world of glass animals, the unicorn is the odd one out surrounded by horses. So, when the horn breaks she does not think of it as a terrible thing, because what has now set it apart from the others and made it unique is now gone. Laura is this unicorn, but the also means that in order for her to be normal, she must be shattered. She is the unique one out of all the horse, but she would do anything to be normal. In her world, normal is the best thing she could be. In the illusionary world she created for herself she feels safe and content because in said world she is regular. She is not the crippled shy girl or unique in anyway. She is weeds, not blue roses.