... events are exaggerated and these exaggerations describe how Williams felt during these moments. The way Williams has created the complex character of Amanda Wingfield may reflect how Williams own mother may have been. The overbearing and domineering mother, Amanda, spends much of her time reliving her ... past days as a southern belle. She desperately hopes her daughter, Laura, will get married. The glass menagerie symbolizes Amanda Wingfield's overwhelming need to cling to her past, and her paranoia of being alone, so she keeps herself surrounded ... have. The glass menagerie itself i...

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In Tennessee Williams? play, the glass menagerie, all four members of the Wingfield family have chosen to hide from reality. Amanda tries to relive her past through Laura, and denies anything she does not want to accept. Laura is terrified of the real world, and choses to hide behind her limp, her glass menagerie and the victrola. Tom hides from his reality by going ... high school crush, and Amanda denies that it could be,It won't be him! It isn't the least bit likely.? (p 278). It is in these ways that Amanda Wingfield hides from reality. Laura Wingfield has chosen to hide from reality in t...

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... , mainly, because every character of the play lives, in some degree, in illusion. The ones which face life in a more realistic way are Tom Wingfield and Jim O"Connor. Tom could be considered to be realistic because of his attitude towards life. Unlike him, every character has discovered a way to escape ... towards that situation. That, added to the factor of a job which brings no adventures or satisfactions, and a smothering home makes both Tom and Mr. Wingfield leave home. Of course it should be mentioned that in the case of Tom there is also another reason for his departure and that is,...

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... of technology and gives it a high regard because the emphasis society places on it. Thus, Jim symbolizes the only aspect reality in the play. Opposite to Jim is Laura, who represents illusion. Laura Wingfield portrays a dependent female; whose crippled leg foreshadows the crippling of her emotions and her ability to communicate with people other than Tom and Amanda. She evades the characteristics ... of reality entirely through her imagination. Laura's damaged leg began to haunt her throughout high school. Amanda would tell Laura that she just had "a little defect, hardly noticeable even...

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... of technology and gives it a high regard because the emphasis society places on it. Thus, Jim symbolizes the only aspect reality in the play. Opposite to Jim is Laura, who represents illusion. Laura Wingfield portrays a dependent female; whose crippled leg foreshadows the crippling of her emotions and her ability to communicate with people other than Tom and Amanda. She evades the characteristics ... of reality entirely through her imagination. Laura's damaged leg began to haunt her throughout high school. Amanda would tell Laura that she just had "a little defect, hardly noticeable even...

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... their imagination. In Tennessee Williams the "Glass Menagerie" the members of the Wingfield family are all trapped in menial existences. Enveloped in their delusions or leading impoverished lives of symbolic displacements, they are almost a family of outcasts. Laura Wingfield is the main focus, who is living in a world of glass ornaments. Amanda Wingfield, Laura's mother, suffocating in her own affections, places her desires indirectly towards ... Laura. Additionally, there is Tom Wingfield, Laura's brother, who is immersed within a world of movies. Laura resembles a wounded animal, mir...

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Laura Wingfield has the fewest lines in the play "The Glass Menagerie," yet the play revolves around her. Laura is twenty-three, and walks with a limp due to a brace on her leg. Although Laura faces problems throughout the play, she is very compassionate. She is humble, shy, and never does anything to hurt anyone else. The character of Laura throughout the play is like a fragile ... your type writer chart Stay fresh and pretty! - It's almost time for our gentlemen callers to start arriving" (Williams 10). Financially, Laura contributes very little to the household, but does her best to hold i...

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... reader to yearn for changes to be made in her personality. The Glass Menagerie is an extremely poetic and heartwarming drama. The character of Laura is extremely vulnerable. Besides having a physical defect, her lack of confidence and individuality are directly affected and related to the actions and ... words of the other three characters: Amanda (her mother), Tom (her brother), and Jim (the gentleman caller). Laura seemed to be in a constant state of paranoia, always trying to please her mother and brother, without having to leave the seclusion of ... matters as loneliness, buried an...

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... delicate little girl. Laura lives in a world of her little glass figurines and doesn't have a connection to the real world. In the world today, there are many individuals that tend to replace their unhappiness in their lives with a seemed to be far-fetched dream. Williams demonstrated how the Wingfield family struggles to ... get a grip on things through using symbolism, foreshadowing, and irony. To begin, the consistency of using symbolism assisting the development of the plot. The fire escape is what Tom sees as an escape route out of the chaos of the house and his mother, but is force...

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... the "bee hive- apartments is the cause of her controlling attitude. Her dominating approach toward her children may in reality be the core of Laura's psychological disarray. Anyone who is sheltered in a minute space for an extensive period of time is susceptible to some unhealthy side effects. Because Amanda ... . Amanda's dreams of her past and being the middle of her small town's social scene persuade her to want the equivalent for her daughter. TOM: Laura is very different from other girls. AMANDA: I think the difference is to her advantage. TOM: Not quite all "in the eyes of others ....

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