The Glass Menagerie Essay

Both glass and people are unique. No two pieces of glass or two people are the same. In the play, The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams, one character Laura collects glass. Laura is twenty three and she has a crippled leg. Because of her crippled leg, she became very shy and lost all confidence. Laura’s glass collection represents Laura in many ways. Like glass, Laura is unique, delicate, and beautiful. Being unique is not being like anyone else, and Laura definitely is not like anyone else in the play. Laura’s favorite piece of glass is her unicorn, because it is unlike all the other pieces of glass. “He stays on a shelf with some horses that don’t have horns and all of them seem to get along nicely together” (1.7.354). Like her unicorn…

The Glass Menagerie is one the plays that Tennessee Williams is most known for. This story takes place with a gentlemen by the name of Tom reflecting back on his memories of his sister Laura and his mother Amanda. We watch as this story unfolds and how each of these characters interact with each other while they try to work though many personal and social problems. By exploring a few literary elements such as theme, symbol and characterization, you as the reader can understand the depth of each…

Glass is very fragile and easily broken, and so is the Wingfield family. Everyone in the Wingfield family gets their fragility shown in some parts of The Glass Menagerie. When Laura’s fragility is shown, a piece of her glass gets broken. Laura’s glass not only represents her fragility, but the fragility of her family. At the beginning of The Glass Menagerie, Tom and Amanda were arguing which led to Tom exiting angrily slamming the door which made one of Laura’s pieces of glass break. Tom leaving…

dream. Tennessee Williams’ play The Glass Menagerie presents three incomparable worlds: dream, reality and memory. The members of the Wingfield family in The Glass Menagerie hide from the reality and choose to live in a dream or a memory. Williams conveys that each character have their own dreams with are ruined by the real world. The whole Wingfield family chooses to live in a dream or a memory and disregards the thought of present. Through the use of symbolism and illusion Williams provides a…

One of the biggest slaps to the face for America was The Great Depression. This time period served greatly as a reality format due to the dream-like era that was the roaring 20’s. The play The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams is the perfect example of realistically showing how people lived during the time of The Great Depression. Not only does this play about Tom’s memories elucidate the time period, but also how him, his mother, and his sister have gone forth with their father withdrawn…

The Glass Menagerie One of the many aspects of The Glass Menagerie that fascinates readers, is that it relies so heavily on memory while exaggerating the emotional value of events that take plays throughout the play itself. The word ‘nonrealistic’ is repeated several times in its stage directions solely to highlight the fact that it isn’t supposed to be depicted as actual reality. A character that represents the fantasy element of the play is Amanda, who is arguably the antagonist of the play…

personal experience with his distinguished and influential memory play, The Glass Menagerie, which transpired in St. Louis in 1937, and primarily depicted the difficulties of the Wingfield’s family during the period of the catastrophic economic collapse. In this way, this play not only generated a mirror of the crucial society that embedded a sense of fear, desperation, and frustration, but also…

Tennessee Williams’ play The Glass Menagerie analyzes the desires the Wingfield’s all individually struggle with. Although it is a memory play from Tom’s perspective, each family member has an onerous task of facing reality. Throughout their lives, they can never truly escape from the desires that destroy them. Each character’s desires are represented by different symbols in the play. The chest and the photograph of her husband symbolize Amanda’s desire to live in the past. Amanda’s present and…

Authors uses symbolism to display a deeper idea about the topic. It shows how a character can be represented as in a story. In the play, Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams, there are three characters: Tom, Amanda and Laura. Each of them have their own objects that symbolizes them as the play goes on. Throughout the play, Tom has been wanting to escape from home and be away from the family. Laura is a shy girl, and her mother, Amanda, has been seeking for a gentleman caller for her, but…

The more someone thinks they are different from another person, the more they realize how similar they are to them. The glass menagerie by Tennessee Williams has many memorable characters in it, the mother in the play is one of these memorable characters. Firstly, the mother (Amanda) has a unique role in the play as she is the attention seeker and controlling, she is always very loud and loves to be heard. The mother is not the only attention seeker though, the son Tom is an attention seeker as…