... Glass Menagerie takes place in the Wingfied's apartment in St. Louis, 1937. This play is framed around the memory of its narrator, Tom Wingfield. Tom's predicament is one of the play's major themes. This theme can be best described as the conflict between responsibility for one's family ... throughout the play Tom seems to be struggling to just tolerate Amanda and while Amanda is loving, she is demanding beyond reason. Tom is character of true melancholy. Though he longs for freedom, his obligatory feelings toward his family keep him in St. Louis. Despite his feelings of obligation, Am...

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... set in St. Louis in 1937. " The Glass Menagerie" is a memory play drawn from the narrator, Tom Wingfield played by Michael A. Newcomer. Tom Wingfield who is also a character in this play is an aspiring poet who works in a shoe warehouse to support his mother Amanda played by Darrie ... Lawrence, and his sister Laura played by Christi Craig. Jim O' Connor played by Derek Phillips is the guy from high school who Laura had ... a devastating crush on and who now works with Tom at the warehouse. There is also a fifth character Mr. Wingfield ... , Tom and Laura's father who ran off years ago...

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... the streets but they are poor enough. Amanda Wingfield is portrayed as a very pushy mother who always tries to urge on and persuade her two children to do exactly what she says. However, it is this sort of behaviour that I feel has lead her daughter Laura to be terribly timid and shy and reluctant ... to be a part of the world. This driving behaviour has lead her son Tom in the total opposite direction, constantly annoyed by his mother waiting for the perfect time to escape. And last but certainly not least, Amanda. The character most longing ... for succession - the American Dream. Ama...

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Tennessee Williams The Glass Menagerie In Tennessee William's the Glass Menagerie the Wingfield family- that belongs in the lower middle class- Amanda and her two children, Laura and Tom live in a small apartment somewhere St. Louis. These three main characters live between reality and their own ... dim, in order to give this non-realistic impression to the audience of the play. As the playwright mentions in his stage directions the interior of Wingfield's small apartment " Is therefore rather dim and poetic". The same "foggy" atmosphere applies to the rest of the setting as well. "The build...

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