"The Glass Menagerie" gave Williams an opportunity to pour out events of his life through the means of fictitious play writing. The Glass Menagerie first opened on March 31, 1945. ... He says in the beginning, "I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion." ... He also says, "You know--you are--well---very different!" ... The masterpiece of "The Glass Menagerie" could only have been accomplished through such intense symbolism. ...

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- (The Glass Menagerie, page 59). ... (The Glass Menagerie, page 82). ... "Glass breaks so easily, no matter how careful you are-. (The Glass Menagerie, page 86) Laura lives in her glass menagerie, which becomes her escape from reality. ... (The Glass Menagerie, page 45). ...

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- (The Glass Menagerie, page 59). ... (The Glass Menagerie, page 82). ... "Glass breaks so easily, no matter how careful you are-. (The Glass Menagerie, page 86) Laura lives in her glass menagerie, which becomes her escape from reality. ... (The Glass Menagerie, page 45). ...

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The Glass Menagerie is a play written by Tennesse Williams. Although, he wrote other successful plays, "The Glass Menagerie" was his first hit. ... Amanda keeps giving her lecture about how she had many gentleman callers knocking her door when she was young, since Laura is the fragile and shy type of girl. ... Living your life with something unusual than others is a little too difficult, but if you think that just because of that you are inferior to others, you have to think again! ... She never did anything in her life except play with her Glass Menagerie and plays those worn-out records. ...

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The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams is a play abounding with symbolism. ... These symbols give an insight and understanding of the life of the Wingfields. ... Next is the glass figures that reside in Laura's menagerie are symbols of Laura herself. ... By it being glass this showed that it was fragile and can easily be broken. ... These are just a few of the many symbols Tennessee Williams places in his play The Glass Menagerie. ...

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Tennessee Williams The Glass Menagerie In Tennessee William's the Glass Menagerie the Wingfield family- that belongs in the lower middle class- Amanda and her two children, Laura and Tom live in a small apartment somewhere St. ... The Glass Menagerie is a memory play. ... Like Tom mentions in the first scene " I give you the truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion." ... Firstly, the title of the play is symbolic, The Glass Menagerie, as well as the presence of the object itself- the glass animals- during the play. The Glass Menagerie represents in some points the character's ...

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There are many similarities and differences amongst the characters from The Glass Menagerie and Ethan Frome. In The Glass Menagerie, Tom's actions act upon the similarities and differences to Ethan from Ethan Frome In Ethan Frome, Zeena's character and personality acts upon the similarities and differences to Amanda from The Glass Menagerie Even though both novels have similar and different points, each work tells the reader about dreams being unfulfilled. ... In the beginning of scene four in The Glass Menagerie, Tom states how the coffin in the magic show acts as a symbol of hi...

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The Glass Menagerie Tennessee Williams" "memory play" originates after World War II in a dark, dreary alley in St. ... The characters in the play can be broken down and described as such: Tom seems to be an enterprising person; he doesn't like to hear about how everyone has questions. ... She has become enveloped into her own small world of glass animals, hence The Glass Menagerie. ... You would've thought he knew Tom had a sister if both worked together. ... The theme that I get out of the play is the idea that Laura is looking for an escape in her glass menagerie. ...

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The Glass Menagerie is a play containing such dramatic and exquisite characters that it is hard not to feel the emotions and feelings held by each one. ... The Glass Menagerie is an extremely poetic and heartwarming drama. ... "Such matters as loneliness, buried and released violence, sex and difference' "the last often signified by physical difference, like lame Laura in The Glass Menagerie- (Kauffmann 152). ... "How many do you suppose we're going to entertain this afternoon- (Ritter 183)? ... She can only feel it vicariously through her brother. ...

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This Reality The Glass Menagerie written by Tennessee Williams follows the lives of three people of a middle-class family, Amanda Wignfield and her two children Laura and Tom. ... Each character in The Glass Menagerie has a need to escape from he or she's life. ... The character Laura, depicted in the plat The Glass Menagerie, is treated as a fragile piece of glass. ... The glass menageries that Laura has are symbols of herself. ... Laura can become anything she wants, and men can still want her....

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Tennessee Williams" "The Glass Menagerie" is an insightful play about Williams's portrayal about himself. ... The glass menagerie symbolizes Amanda Wingfield's overwhelming need to cling to her past, and her paranoia of being alone, so she keeps herself surrounded by the menagerie and her memories. ... The glass menagerie itself is a symbol Williams" uses to represent the broken lives of Amanda, Laura and Tom Wingfield, and their inability to live in the present. ... She pretends that Laura can do everything she can do, as when she refers to the issues of gentlemen callers. ... Whe...

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I will not call you on the weekends, I can not see you after tonight. ... Tom never mentioned anything about you being engaged. ... After our kiss, you were the only thing I thought about day in and day out. ... People change and grow, just like my glass menagerie... Laura has her own store of glass menagerie, and Amanda died of natural causes in peace, because Laura was married and Tom is now the head of the merchant marines, who is married to a nurse and has his own daughter named Amanda. ) ...

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Illusion versus Reality in The Glass Menagerie How well a reader can identify with a piece of literature depends on his ability to associate with the ideas and characters presented to him. Williams "Glass Menagerie" provides many means in which the reader may identify with the work. ... Living in an illusion can be very appealing to one, since it gives you somewhat of an escape from reality. ... He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion" (11). ...

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'The Glass Menagerie' by Tennessee Williams is a play in which Tom, the narrator and protagonist, has to deal with the idea of delusion. ... It was painful for Amanda to think about Mr. ... She displays motherly concern when she thinks about Laura's future. ... Jim does not tell Laura the truth about his relationship with another girl, but he went on to compliment Laura "Has anyone told you that you were pretty?". ... Since she was reliving her own life, she failed to understand the different personalities that her children possessed and ended up driving Tom away from home, a...

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This is literary device is clearly demonstrated in the play "The Glass Menagerie- by Tennessee Williams. ... In a room lit by candle light and the sound of music, Jim, the gentlemen caller and Laura stand together while Laura enlightens Jim about her glass menagerie; "LAURA: I shouldn't be partial, but he is my favorite one. ... He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion."" ... Like the coffin trick, a magician gives you wonderful but false sense of reality. ...

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In The Glass Menagerie, Amanda's isolation in the "bee hive- apartments is the cause of her controlling attitude. ... TOM: What can I do about it? ... Self, self, self is all that you ever think of! ... Louis serves as seclusion for Amanda in The Glass Menagerie. ... Amanda should understand that Laura is as easy to destroy as her glass menagerie. ...

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The Glass Menagerie is mainly about the spiritual paralysis of human beings as the result of the depressive atmosphere of the society, breakdown of family institution and lack of understanding among even the most intimate persons; that is, the members of a family. ... In order to give the impression of the reality of such a situation, Williams represents his play as the construction of Tom Wingfield's memory. There are important autobiographical aspects in The Glass Menagerie and the characters which it depicts. ... You can't do creative work and adhere to facts. ... The Glass Men...

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The play The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams is no exception to this fact. ... I can relate to her because my grandmother is the same way. ... From the very beginning you can see how the mother is very in and out of reality. ... In an underlying matter she gives off the feeling as if she is belittling her own daughter. ... You can't worry about making only your mother happy and not yourself because then there is no use living at all. ...

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In the memory play The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams, a man named Tom recounts his memory of his sister, Laura and his mother, Amanda. ... She argues, "Oh I can see the handwriting on the wall as plain as I see the nose in front of my face! ... More and more you remind me of your father! ... Enough to give you a night-school course in a counting a t Washington U.! ... I'm tired of the movies and I am about to move! ...

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Laura Wingfield has the fewest lines in the play "The Glass Menagerie," yet the play revolves around her. ... A former jet setter, Amanda relishes telling stories about her exciting past... After they eat dinner Laura shares her innermost secrets about the glass unicorn and its significance to her. ... He wishes to give her confidence and to help her. ... Immediately she retreats into her fantasy world of the Glass Menagerie. ...

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In The Glass Menagerie, Laura Wingfield is set as an outcast because of her disability and shyness. ... You know that I never allow that word to be used!... You disgust me. ...". ... Tennessee Williams uses the theme of illusion in both The Glass Menagerie and A Streetcar Named Desire. In The Glass Menagerie, the theme of illusion is shown whenever Amanda speaks of her past. ...

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Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie, The Long Goodbye, and Suddenly Last Summer, all share the same general theme. ... In The Glass Menagerie, Laura is the one that has to rise above her disability problem. ... In the first of the three plays, The Glass Menagerie, Laura expresses the theme of you can overcome your obstacles in life no matter how hard they seem, by her actions. ... You can also see how shy she is by this next quote. ... "I knew you could do it Joe, and you did, because you didn't give up." ...

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The Search for Happiness Tennesse Williams examines the main theme of happiness in his play "The Glass Menagerie." ... Williams first explores a family that is unable to face reality, using a glass unicorn to represent one family member's uniqueness, Laura. ... She tells Tom "try and you will succeed," a bit of advice that she could use in her own life (1421). ... She also tells Laura that she will marry "some nice man," giving Laura a little hope (1415). ... Tom also sacrifices paying the light bill so he can pay dues to "The Union of Merchant Seaman," unconcerned about the well b...

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On the other hand, plays such as The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams and Summer of the Seventeenth Doll by Ray Lawler show love in a completely different light. ... "Give me excess of it (love), that surfeiting The appetite may sicken, and so die." ... This idea of loving love seems to be a very Shakespearean idea, however Laura in The Glass Menagerie comes close. ... O, you are sick of self-love, Malvolio, and taste with a distemper'd appetite." ... This strange and bizarre decision is exactly what love is all about according to Twelfth Night. ...

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