The Glass Menagerie Outline

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In The Glass Menagerie, abandonment is found within the family unit when one deserts the family unit, and leaves their loved ones behind to fend for themselves.
I. The play deals with the morality of such an act, as well as the outcome.
A. It insinuates that such an act may be inherited from the parents, as the son chooses to abandon the home the way the father once did.
B. The Glass Menagerie fails to specify sufficient reasoning to explain Tom's abrupt parting from the family.
II. Abandonment always has the greatest impact on the person abandoned, it changes them in ways that could not be into simple words.
A. Perspectives of this changes person from person and might change others from what their perspective was beforehand.
B. An example

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