Mosaics, Glass Shells, and the Power of Introversion Both Laura, a fictional character in the play, The Glass Menagerie, and Temple Grandin, the author of "Genius May Be an Abnormality: Educating Students with Asperger's Syndrome", can be categorized as introverts: Grandin, labeled with autism, and Laura, with "inferiority complex", as Jim calls it. Both abnormalities are analogous in the sense that both involve awkward social skills and self doubt, and a passion, or genius in one single thing. Laura, like children with autism, is crippled, she is "abnormal" to her society, and she is afraid o...

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... Named Desire and The Glass Menagerie were two plays in which there was a woman who played a drastic role in life of the other characters; they were Blanche DuBois and Amanda Wingfield. Written by the same playwright, these two main female characters featured characteristics that were similar to both. Blanche and Amanda were "southern belles" who couldn't adopt a new lifestyle other than ... both characters had problems dealing with. Their inability to change to the urban lifestyle caused them to be inferior to society. Amanda's experiences from the South caused her to push Laura into do...

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