The Glass Menagerie Research Paper

The Glass Menagerie was Tennessee William’s one first success in creative writing. Known also as a memory play, the play involves about four characters: a young man, Tom, who is supporting his family (mother, and sister) after his father had abandoned them, the sister, Lara, who is painted as a very shy and introverted person due to her handicap, and has an obsession with a collection of glass animals, the mother, who is very loving in an exaggerated way, who also lives in an unreal world, Jim, who appears late in the story. This play is called a memory play because the story is told through the eye, and through the memories of Tom, the main character. To have this play told from the memory of Tom creates a type of conflict in the story since …show more content…
Adding to all the misunderstanding between Amanda and Tom, the mother convinced Tom to bring Jim. It appears like everything was going the way it planned, and conflict is going to end. Tom ultimately express his feeling to Laura, and even kissed her. The feelings seem to be mutual between them, but Jim then explains that he cannot continue to love Laura because he was already engaged to marry someone else and runs away. Amanda feels very sorry for her daughter, and healed at Tom for bringing an engaged man to Laura. As if the situation was not bad enough, Tom keeps disappointing Amanda. He takes the house electricity bills and pay his traveling expenses and take off as his dad did. The reality is keeping reminding Amanda that what she is hoping for is not going to happened, but she keeps dreaming. Looking at Tom through his thoughts does not seem like his was a happy man in his life. Tom loved moves and poems. He wanted to be a writer. His nickname even was Shakespeare because of his passion for theater, and poems. However his reality was different. He is frequently commenting that he is not different from his father, and that is will go away one day as his father did. However, even if Tom left the house with not scruple, his love for Laura, his sister made him feel very bad. Narrating the story, Tom looks back with regret and apologize to his