In modern literature, one of the very important pieces’ is The Glass Menagerie. In The Glass Menagerie, the author Tennessee Williams explains the dreams and realities that the four main characters one endured in the modern day world. “The setting—a run-down tenement in St. Louis ” (Als) is in the Depression- Era. The constant conflict is this story is slowly ripping the loving family apart. Williams uses different symbols and marker to convey and portray him theme. The incapability of the characters living in the present era is another way he expresses his theme.
In the middle of the city along the dark alleys with many fire escape latter’s is the apartment that Amanda, Laura, and Tom Wingfield. Although Amanda tried her best to make the atmosphere …show more content…
Jim, the mystery man, has yet to meet Laura and Laura’s mother. Her mother thinks that Jim is definitely the man for Laura. Although Amanda thinks this, she herself is having a hard time figuring out what is real and what is only in her head. Just the same way as she does not look at and will never accept that her daughter is handicap, she never refers to Laura as handicap, “you just have a little defect- hardly noticeable, even” (1389.), but as a little defective.
Along with the fire escape, Laura’s glass menagerie is also a symbol that Williams in the play. It is sensitive and very fragile, just like Laura. The glass menagerie that she polished and looks at all the time is just like herself, completely innocent. Just the same as Laura, when you put the glass menagerie in light, it shines with multiple colors. When Laura finally builds the courage to go to business school, it is completely crushed when she gets there and is very shy and embarrassed, causing her to get sick at school. It is then she decides to drop her classes and not return to …show more content…
His mother Amanda begs him not to smoke but he does it anyway. Tom is the only person in the house that smokes, therefore he escapes out onto the fire escape to smoke and then he know he will not have to listen to either of them fuss about how he should not be smoking. Even though it makes it worse, Tom smokes just so he can escape the reality of his mother’s racket.
Both Amanda, Tom, and Laura all react in different ways to escape reality. Neither of them will accept the harshness of this world, they refuse to live in the real world and it is effecting them all in a different way. For example, Laura, only allows herself to be in the real world for just a moment. She “is abnormally shy and unable to function in the outside world” (Tueth, 21), she is not comfortable with the world as it is today, she then retreats back into her little world with her glass animals. Laura is very vulnerable in the real world, which is why she retreats to her world where she more
In the middle of the city along the dark alleys with many fire escape latter’s is the apartment that Amanda, Laura, and Tom Wingfield. Although Amanda tried her best to make the atmosphere …show more content…
Jim, the mystery man, has yet to meet Laura and Laura’s mother. Her mother thinks that Jim is definitely the man for Laura. Although Amanda thinks this, she herself is having a hard time figuring out what is real and what is only in her head. Just the same way as she does not look at and will never accept that her daughter is handicap, she never refers to Laura as handicap, “you just have a little defect- hardly noticeable, even” (1389.), but as a little defective.
Along with the fire escape, Laura’s glass menagerie is also a symbol that Williams in the play. It is sensitive and very fragile, just like Laura. The glass menagerie that she polished and looks at all the time is just like herself, completely innocent. Just the same as Laura, when you put the glass menagerie in light, it shines with multiple colors. When Laura finally builds the courage to go to business school, it is completely crushed when she gets there and is very shy and embarrassed, causing her to get sick at school. It is then she decides to drop her classes and not return to …show more content…
His mother Amanda begs him not to smoke but he does it anyway. Tom is the only person in the house that smokes, therefore he escapes out onto the fire escape to smoke and then he know he will not have to listen to either of them fuss about how he should not be smoking. Even though it makes it worse, Tom smokes just so he can escape the reality of his mother’s racket.
Both Amanda, Tom, and Laura all react in different ways to escape reality. Neither of them will accept the harshness of this world, they refuse to live in the real world and it is effecting them all in a different way. For example, Laura, only allows herself to be in the real world for just a moment. She “is abnormally shy and unable to function in the outside world” (Tueth, 21), she is not comfortable with the world as it is today, she then retreats back into her little world with her glass animals. Laura is very vulnerable in the real world, which is why she retreats to her world where she more