The Glass Castle

The Characters of The Glass Menagerie The classic play The Glass Menagerie was written by Tennessee Williams. The memory play takes place during the 1930’s Great Depression era in St. Louis, where you see the narrator Tom Wingfield walking in his old dingy apartment where he once lived with his mother Amanda Wingfield and Sister Laura Wingfield. That’s where he starts to narrate the past memories he spent with them as well as describing each of the protagonist’s characters in the play. All…

Daniel Sullivan Professor Tomaino THTR-105 December 14, 2016 Tennessee Williams The Greatest Southern Playwright Tennessee Williams, born Thomas Lanier Williams III, was born on March 26th, 1911 in Columbus, Mississippi. Williams suffered through a difficult and troubling childhood. His father, Cornelius Williams, was an alcoholic shoe salesman and frequently abused Thomas. Cornelius was critical of Thomas 's love of reading and writing poetry, and wished that his son was more robust and…

Life in a Glass House Tennessee Williams is best known for writing short stories, poetry, and plays. He likes to use Metaphor, symbols, and Southern Gothic style when he writes. Southern Gothic style can be looked at as the lost, unbalanced, mind like addiction, madness, obsession, and controlling. Most of Williams writing is based on his life experience. He recreates his life as a child and brings them back to life in his writing. The memory of his childhood is very much the same as the…

Symbolism in The Glass Menagerie Symbols are used in literature to represent abstract ideas and thoughts. The use of symbolism is how authors convey their beliefs and messages to the reader and how they explicate on elements in their stories. In Tennessee Williams’ The Glass Menagerie, he uses the symbolism of the fire escape to illustrate Tom’s character, Laura’s character, and his message about abandonment and escape in relation to human life. One way Williams uses the symbolism of the fire…

Ashley Wilson Brown English 152 OM3 4 December 2016 The Glass Menagerie Stevenson University’s production of Tennessee Williams’s The Glass Menagerie was a fascinating experience. The play’s setting took place in St. Louis in 1937 where a family of three lived in a small dingy apartment. The narrator and character, Tom Wingfield, desires to leave his mother, Amanda Wingfield, and his sister, Laura Wingfield but has a duty to support his family. Tom and Laura’s father happily abandons…

I chose to continue my research on John Singer Sargent for my final paper because of his strong interest in the female image. I wanted to know why Sargent chose women as his main subjects. His works include women of high social class, children of the wealthy and political figures. He also did painting of women in lower classes that he came in contact with in Venice, Capri, Spain and Africa. In this essay I will be discussing his works, the history of the paintings and the meaning behind the…

Roger E. Reynolds, “Liturgy and the Monument”, in Artistic Integration in Gothic Buildings (Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, 1995), 57-68. In his article, Roger Reynolds argues that liturgy and cathedrals and a relationship of mutual adaptation. He argues that they would each adapt their forms and traditions to the other depending on which preceded in each specific case, (i.e. an older building with contemporary liturgy, or a new building being built to fit liturgical…

Tennessee Williams was born in Columbus, Mississippi on March 26, 1911 (Biography.com). He won a Pulitzer Prize for his works, including A Streetcar Named Desire and Cat on a Hot Tin Tin Roof. A Streetcar Named Desire, written in 1947, is the play that gave Williams his first Pulitzer Prize (Biography.com). The main characters in that play are Blanche Dubois, her younger sister Stella, and Stella’s husband Stanley Kowalski. Blanche Dubois has unexpectedly come to live with her sister because she…

Death of A Salesman, written by Arthur Miller in 1949, follows an aged salesman, Willy Loman, as he struggles to accept the reality of his failing career and misguided life principles. In this essay, I will examine the structure of the play and how Miller has used time and space to reveal character, present Willy’s faulty ideals, and foreshadow. The play is broken into two acts and a requiem: each segment takes place on a different day in the present day, within the world of the play. For the…

“She lives in a world of her own-A world of little glass ornaments…” (1.5.132) is how Laura Wingfield was described by her brother, in the play “The Glass Menagerie” by Tennessee Williams. In this play there are many significant objects that have a deep underlying meaning. “The Glass Menagerie” is not just the title of this play; it is also the foreground for it, and a major part of understanding Laura Wingfield’s character. Laura Wingfield is one of the main characters of Williams play in…