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). ... "The poignancy of The Glass Menagerie derives principally from the characters of Amanda and Laura, whom Williams pictures as trapped in a conflict between reality and ...

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• Grade Level: High School

The lights dim as the "Glass Menagerie" theme music plays. ... Amanda goes through a melodramatic routine of tearing up the keyboard diagram and speaking vaguely about deception before Laura can extract what exactly has happened. ... Amanda wonders in a hopeless tone what will become of them if Laura refuses a "business career"; will they play with the glass menagerie and listen to Father's old records all day? ... Williams sought the opposite in The Glass Menagerie: truth disguised as illusion. ... All of the characters in The Glass Menagerie's are sympathetic: this is one of the ...

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• Grade Level: High School

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. ... She lives in a world of pretty glass. ... He is aware of the deception and illusion at his home, and has decided the only way to survive is to leave. ... He appears to have understood that he could not have lived in such deception for any longer. ...

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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. ... She is constantly inventing imaginary romances to escape from the depressing reality of her existence only to indulge in self-deceptions. ... The most important things in Laura's life are some old records that belonged to her father, and her collection of glass figures. ... The gl...

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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. ... This idea of loving love seems to be a very Shakespearean idea, however Laura in The Glass Menagerie comes close. ... That, of course, concerning the deception on behalf of Viola. ... The deception of Viola and "madness" of Malvolio serves to highlight the unpredictable nature of love and the chaos it leaves in its wake. ...

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He had knowledge of the vicious deception brought upon by his uncle, and he was the only person capable of correcting or at least trying to justify the death of his father. ... As for The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams (1911-1983), the idea conveyed in this play is that of image versus reality. ... Laura has her own imaginary reality through her glass menagerie her private world, and the breaking of it .The unicorn is Laura's singularity, her return to reality, and her return to her retreat back into her world. . ...

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Blanche, when accused of deliberate deception says only, "I didn't lie in my heart." ... In The Glass Menagerie, Laura's unrealistic grasp on life clashes with Tom's ability to function in the "real" world. ...

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• Approx Pages: 11
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School