... each character attempt to escape reality, we will examine the symbols, which gave each character an opportunity for escape. We will first look at Amanda Wingfield. She is the mother of Tom and Laura and is portrayed as a loving but over zealous mother, who at times is controlling and nagging ... Living on a plantation and coming from a wealthy family, Amanda never went without the finer things in life. All this changed after Amanda married Mr. Wingfield, a telephone man, and left the plantation life for city life. Even though Amanda had left the south, she always carried herself with tha...

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• Grade Level: High School

... imagination. In Tennessee Williams the "Glass Menagerie" the members of the Wingfield family are all trapped in menial existences. Enveloped in their delusions or leading impoverished lives of symbolic displacements, they are almost a family of outcasts. Laura Wingfield is the main focus, who is living in a world of glass ornaments. Amanda Wingfield, Laura's mother, suffocating in her own affections, places her desires indirectly ... towards Laura. Additionally, there is Tom Wingfield, Laura's brother, who is immersed within a world of movies. Laura resembles a wounded animal, mirroring...

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Scenes 1+2 The Wingfield apartment faces an alley in a lower middle class St. Louis tenement. There is a fire escape with a landing that serves as a porch. "The scene is memory," indicate the stage directions, and, ... family's poverty, general boredom. On a larger level, that coffin can be seen as membership in the "fundamentally enslaved section of American society" that Williams describes in the stage directions. The Wingfield's apartment does not have a balcony or porch; it has a fire escape landing. This is no accident. Turning once more to the stage directions of Scene I, we read that ...

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This play takes place in the mid forties. It is about a mother, Amanda Wingfield, a daughter, Laura Wingfield, and a son, Tom Wingfield. There are five characters in this play. The other character is a friend of Tom's, Jim O"Connor. Amanda was always successful with men when she was younger. She was always getting ... to high school with Tom and Laura. He now works at the factory with Tom. He is dating a girl named Betty and they are engaged. He is brought to the Wingfield home as a gentlemen caller, and when Top brings him home, he is unaware that he is going to be married. Amanda always co...

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... aware of the deception and illusion at his home, and has decided the only way to survive is to leave. Finally, Jim is introduced as he is welcomed to the Wingfield residence when he makes the important house call. By this point, Williams has made it apparent the Wingfields are not the run-of-the-mill family; in contrast, they have ... . If Jim can't bring the harsh reality to this family what is to happen? Has the reader been given the resolution? Jim is only a page in the chapter about the Wingfield's. He has given Laura a glimpse of what might have been, but he will return to his life ...

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• Grade Level: High School

... real world. In the world today, there are many individuals that tend to replace their unhappiness in their lives with a seemed to be far-fetched dream. Williams demonstrated how the Wingfield family struggles to get a grip on things through using symbolism, foreshadowing, and irony. To begin, the consistency of using symbolism assisting the development of the plot. The fire escape is ... ...

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• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School