Tennessee Williams

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…

One of these was the fact that Williams was a homosexual. I see this book as a way of Tennessee expressing himself and that fact that he was homosexual. In the time period he lived gays were frowned upon and not warmly welcome. I see this book as his way to explore his own sexuality because he couldn 't actually do it in real life so he did it in his head. The fact that williams was living in the historical period of the 40’s influenced his reason for writing…

Bryan Alvizures March 6,2018 Mr. Amoroso. Period 9 Concept questions 3 In the play “Fences” by August Wilson, Troy(the main character) has a a type of dualistic nature within him. Sometimes he teaches lessons while sometimes he shows complete anger and no control. On page 66 he states “ I’m trying to find a way to tell you ...I’m gonna be a daddy. I’m gonna be somebody’s daddy.” Troy is showing himself as a person who doesn’t respect his wife and went out to have a baby with…

Scene 1 From what is shown through the first scene, Amanda's relationship with her children was not a good one, because she treats Tom like a child and lives her life through Laura. Amanda wants to go back to the past like Gatsby and Hannah because of the idea that it was better, creating a universe that her daughter was perfect and her son doesn't go out all the time. Scene 2 Because Amanda is living through Laura, she is trying to control everything that goes on in Laura's life, making her…

menagerie is an escape to her own little world. One character that changes from the beginning to the end of The Glass Menagerie would be Tom’s older sister Laura Wingfield. Laura is very self-conscious and does not expect to get any gentlemen callers (Williams, P. 7). Amanda tries to convince Laura that gentlemen callers will come when you…

There are times in life that a person can feel as if they are trapped. People can be trapped by their parents, others by their own insecurities, and some by their past. In The Glass Menagerie, each character fights themselves with a different definition of captivity. Although the characters may seem as if they have could change their situations easily, there is no tangible or direct answers to the reasons people cling to the past. Although each character is unhappy with their lives, each…

The Glass Menagerie is a play, in which its events are taken from the memories of the narrator, Tom Wingfield. The play is set in St. Louis on the year 1937. Tom is a leading character in the play. He is an amature poet who works in a shoe warehouse to support his mother, Amanda, and his sister, Laura. Tom and Laura’s father, Mr. Wingfield, ran off years ago and has not been heard from, other than a postcard they received. Amanda is disappointed that Laura, a shy girl who is forced to wear a…

As a slight cripple, she shies away from the world, hiding among glass unicorns and other figurines, and listening to her phonograph records. The real world unnerves her, deeming her unable to even handle typing class at Rubicam’s Business College. She couldn’t even type from nerves, her hands jittering across the keys. And when she tried to take her speed typing test, she vomited on the floor, and almost had to be carried to the washroom. While she was supposed to be in class, Laura simply…

The play, “Summer of the Seventeenth Doll” by Ray Lawler is mainly a story about life of Australia in the 1950s. In the play, one sees that, Lawler gives audiences rich insights into various aspects of gender issues and cultural identity issues typical of Australian life set in that period of time. The play talks about a group of ordinary people who are struggling to stay young as do not acknowledge the reality that they are aging. In their desperate bid to escape the inevitability of the…

Carrie Underwood joined James Corden on "The Late Late Show" on Wednesday, December 2, which can only mean one thing: another edition of Carpool Karaoke! She has joined the likes of rapper-songwriter Iggy Azalea, singer-songwriter Justin Bieber, record producer Mariah Carey, singer Rod Stewart and multi-instrumentalist Stevie Wonder, all of whom sat in the passenger seat as comedian actor James Corden's drove them around L.A. as part of "The Late Late Show's." The country singer was just the…