... a drowning wave of nostalgia or remorse. Williams's production notes and stage directions emphasize the striving for what Williams described as a "new plastic theater." Realism, he felt, had run its course; it offered, like the magician, "illusion that has the appearance of truth." Williams sought the opposite in The Glass Menagerie: truth disguised as illusion. To this end, the play employs expressionistic ... . Amanda makes a cheerful, breathless, unsuccessful sales pitch on the telephone. The lights dim. When they come up again, Tom and Amanda are engaged in a loud argument while Laur...

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