In The Glass Menagerie, Tennessee Williams creates a world in which the characters are disillusioned by the present. Amanda, Laura and Tom achieve this disillusionment by resorting to separate worlds where they can find sanctuary. Each character ... Marines, a place where he can live out his dreams for adventure. Laura's problem, according to Jim, is her "inferiority complex" (691). However, she finds confidence in the old records she plays on the victrola and in her glass menagerie. Laura enjoys listening to old phonograph records that used to be her fathers". She retreats to the victrola ...

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