In The Glass Menagerie, Tom Wingfield is unhappy with his life as his primary role is to work and provide for his family. ... Another example of symbolism used in The Glass Menagerie is the movies. ... Another character in The Glass Menagerie that creates escapes to avoid reality is Tom's mother Amanda. ... In The Glass Menagerie, Laura too creates many escapes to avoid facing reality. One example of symbolism used by Williams to portray how Laura escapes is her glass menagerie. ...

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The Glass Menagerie, by Tennessee Williams, was written and first performed in 1944. ... Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie takes place in the Wingfield family apartment, in 1937. ... Another literary element that Williams presents throughout The Glass Menagerie is symbolism. ... The glass unicorn, notably her favorite, represents her abnormalities. ... All of these elements are vital in communicating one of the main themes of The Glass Menagerie. ...

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In what ways are each of the Wingfields flawed in The Glass Menagerie? ... The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams revolves around the flaws of each of the Wingfields: Amanda Wingfield, a woman of a very confusing nature; Laura Wingfield, one who is partially crippled and lets that make her extremely self conscious; and Tom Wingfield, one who is seen as selfish, and feels trapped and is looking for a way out. ... When Jim kisses Laura, she comes to reality and forgets about the broken piece of glass, and becomes a real person for a moment. But she lacks the strength to stay in reality, for...

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There are many similarities and differences amongst the characters from The Glass Menagerie and Ethan Frome. In The Glass Menagerie, Tom's actions act upon the similarities and differences to Ethan from Ethan Frome In Ethan Frome, Zeena's character and personality acts upon the similarities and differences to Amanda from The Glass Menagerie Even though both novels have similar and different points, each work tells the reader about dreams being unfulfilled. ... In the beginning of scene four in The Glass Menagerie, Tom states how the coffin in the magic show acts as a symbol of hi...

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We see various examples of this with the Wingfield family in Tennessee Williams' theatrical masterpiece, "The Glass Menagerie." ... She is as fragile as her precious collection of glass figurines. ... She spends her time doing unproductive activities such as going to museums or polishing her glass. ... "The Glass Menagerie" is a riveting play about living in his/her own realm of life. ...

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There are many factors to becoming a family, a family consists of a group of people being supportive, caring, loving etc. towards each other, this is basically what immediately comes to mind when we think of a family, in Tennessee Williams play, The Glass Menagerie, The Wingfield's find that many of the family factors become obstacles that they struggle to overcome. ... The Glass Menagerie, is based on Tom Wingfield, who recalls the events from a first person narration, Tom is the son of Amanda, brother to Laura, an aspiring poet and a shoe warehouse employee, who was also designated to ...

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'The Glass Menagerie' by Tennessee Williams is a play in which Tom, the narrator and protagonist, has to deal with the idea of delusion. ... In search of companionship, she builds her own fantasy world with her glass-animal friends. ... Laura enjoys this world, she is calm and relaxed when she is with her glass-animal "friends"; she uses this false idea of companionship in this fantasy world constantly. ... Laura moved from one blissful fantasy to "infinite desolation" and back to her make-believe world of glass-animal "friends" as companions. ... Since she was reliving her own ...

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The Glass Menagerie and The Grapes of Wrath are works of literature set in this time period. ... Tom Joad in The Grapes of Wrath and Tom Wingfield in The Glass Menagerie are both young adults who are forced with the pressure of leading and supporting their families during the Great Depression, while attempting to discover who they are. ... The turning point of both the play, The Glass Menagerie and the novel, The Grapes of Wrath reveal that the Tom of each work parts from his family. ...

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"The Glass Menagerie" by Tennessee Williams, "A Raisin In The Sun" by Lorraine Hansberry, and "A Doll's House" by Henrik Ibsen. ... In the play "The Glass Menagerie", I found the ending to be inappropriate. ...

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In the memory play The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams, a man named Tom recounts his memory of his sister, Laura and his mother, Amanda. According to Tom, Amanda lives in the past, striving to find suitors for Laura, and Laura is all too consumed with her glass collection, while Tom works to support the three of them. ...

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