... "A Streetcar Named Desire," "The Glass Menagerie," and "A Rose Tattoo". In the play "The glass Menagerie", in this play the most autobiographical character is Mr. Wingfield which is Amanda's husband. He is a handsome man who worked as a salesman for a telephone company and abandoned his family years before the action of ... both of them treated bad and abandoned their family, they were both Alcohol addicts, and had the same occupation. Another really autobiographical character in this play is Tom Wingfield, who represents Tennessee Williams himself. In fact the writer's real name is Tom ...

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... minimal contact with them. In Tom's introductory narration, even though there are only four characters in the play, Tom acknowledges, "There is a fifth character in the play who doesn't appearThis is our father who left a long time ago[he] fell in love with long distances; he gave up his ... Tom's motives regarding his aspirations to escape. In the beginning of scene four, Tom returns home late at night after hours of drinking, explaining to Laura how he was enjoying a magician's show. Tom is fascinated and he recalls that "..the wonderfullest trick of all was the coffin trick. We ... ...

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... avoid reality. Through symbolism, William is able to emphasize how one will create an escape to avoid facing reality. In The Glass Menagerie, Tom Wingfield is unhappy with his life as his primary role is to work and provide for his family. Tom creates many escapes to avoid the reality ... life. Thus, by using these examples of symbolism, Williams is able to prove how one will create an escape to avoid facing reality. Another character in The Glass Menagerie that creates escapes to avoid reality is Tom's mother Amanda. Amanda creates escapes to because she too has difficulty accepting ma...

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