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 ... play, from the rainbow reflections of the dance hall's glass ball to the magician's rainbow scarf. Delicate, illusory, fragile, fleeting, they capture something essential of Laura's character. Christian religious imagery also abounds, though not perhaps in any coherent way. In this scene, Tom's inebriated account of the magic show ends with his description ... boredom. On a larger level, that coffin can be seen as membership in t...

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