1. Glass Menagerie
... is opaque behind him; it becomes translucent as his monologue concludes, revealing the dining room. Tom's narration is, (again, according to the stage directions themselves), "an undisguised convention of the play...[h]e takes whatever license with dramatic convention is convenient to his purposes." Tom tells us he ... steps outside. Amanda's face shows the evidence that something has happened. When Laura hears Amanda, she hides her ornaments and plants herself in front of a diagram of a keyboard. Amanda goes through a melodramatic routine of tearing up the keyboard diagram and speaking v...
- Word Count: 5517
- Approx Pages: 22
- Grade Level: High School