... positive. He wishes to give her confidence and to help her. He leads her in a clumsy dance around the room accidentally knocking the glass unicorn off the table, breaking its horn. Laura did not have a reaction to this. She said that now the unicorn is now just a normal horse "I"ll just imagine he had an operation. The ... horn was removed to make him feel less- freakish! Now he will feel more at home with the horses, the ones that don't have horns- (Williams 86). Instead of helping Laura ... her false hopes. Laura's confidence diminishes when she learns that Jim is affianced. Immedia...

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... and Jim's conversation, Jim clumsily knocks over a piece of Laura's glass collection. It happened to be the unicorn. On the fall, the unicorn lost its horn. Laura claims, "I'll just imagine he had an operation. The horn was removed to make him feel less "freakish! Now he'll feel more at home with the other horses, the ones that don't have ... horns - Perhaps this claim not only relates to the unicorn, but also to Laura. The loss of the horn may symbolize the beginning of the loss of Laura's flaw. Not her physical defect, but her lack of confidence and self-esteem. She is just as delicat...

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... . Its purpose is completely opposite of practical and realistic. Laura doesn't seem to realize this, however, the irony describes Laura's own world of illusion. When the "horse with the horn" loses the horn and becomes just like the others, Laura gives it to Jim, in a symbolic gesture. It has become normal, like everybody else, and Laura had to send it off with ... ...

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... represents her fragility and her peculiarity. As Jim tells her: "Unicorns are extinct, and are really different from normal horses" (Williams 223). Later, when Jim will kiss Laura, the unicorn's horn will brake off, and it will become just like a normal horse. This makes feel Laura a normal girl but eventually she will give the broken unicorn to Jim because without the ... horn the unicorn is more appropriate for him that for her. Also, Laura Wingfield lives in her own world, because she doesn't accept reality. Maybe this is a way to symbolize how ... ...

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... break out of her shell. As the play continues, Jim attempts to teach Laura how to dance. They bump into the table and the unicorn figure falls and the unicorn's horn breaks. Jim is sadden that her favorite figure has broken, but Laura is not upset she sees this as a positive thing as she replies to Jim, "It doesn't matter. Maybe ... it's a blessing in disguise. I"ll just imagine he had an operation. The horn removed to make him feel less - freakish! Now we feel more at home with the other horses, the ones that don't have horns-(1951). At this point Laura sees her ... ...

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... want to force her into something that might make her "break". Like the unicorn, Laura is unique. The unicorn is a horse-like animal which differs from them because it has a horn in its head. Laura also is different from other people, as mentioned before, because of it glasslike qualities. During scene seven, accidentally the unicorn breaks, and it looses its ... horn, making it normal, ordinary, just like the other horses. This is a metaphor, Jim's kiss turns her into a normal girl, she losses her uniqueness because she is no longer protected from ... ...

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... different, just as she is different. She also points out that the unicorn does not complain of being different, as she does not complain either. And when Jim breaks the horn off the unicorn, Laura points out that now it is like the other horses, just as Laura has shed some of her shyness and become more normal. When she hands ... ...

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