Tennessee Williams", gives the reader an inside look into the lives of a common family living in the pre-war depression era in his play The Glass Menagerie. ... The two different symbols that can be found in the Glass Menagerie are escape, which provides hope and diversion from the outside world and the glass menagerie, which is a metaphor for Laura's fragility and uniqueness. ... Williams uses the theme of escape throughout The Glass Menagerie to demonstrate the hopelessness of each character's dreams. The symbol of the glass menagerie represents a safe place to hide from realit...

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The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams is a play abounding with symbolism. ... Without comprehension of William's use of symbolism, one could never have a proper understanding of the theme of the play and how the theme develops. ... Next is the glass figures that reside in Laura's menagerie are symbols of Laura herself. ... After talking to him for a period of time she slowly opened herself up, and showed him her favorite glass menagerie. ... These are just a few of the many symbols Tennessee Williams places in his play The Glass Men...

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Symbolism: The Glass Menagerie Tennessee Williams uses symbolism throughout his classic play The Glass Menagerie. ... Williams uses symbols to effectively express the theme of The Glass Menagerie. ... Symbols used in this classic play are the fire escape, Laura's "glass menagerie," and rainbows. ... Another recurring symbol in the story is that of the "glass menagerie." ... The conversation turns to Laura's glass collection and Laura remarks "Glass is something you have to take good care of" (VII, p. 1821), again showing her fragility and the symbolism of the "glass menag...

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The Glass Menagerie, by Tennessee Williams, was written and first performed in 1944. ... Williams is able to incorporate elements such as setting, symbolism, and conflict to express a main theme of escape. 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. ... All of these elements are vital in communicating one of the main themes of The Glass Menagerie. ...

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The Play is about a Family Trying to Succeed The Glass Menagerie has many different interpretations and one of the plays" main themes is that it is about a family trying to succeed. ... Keeping her Glass Menagerie safe and secure is also an important factor in keeping Laura happy too. ... Laura, by consoling only in her Glass Menagerie and Amanda being the worst - forcing her children to live the life she wanted. My theme ends on an unfortunate note, as does the play. Tom leaves the Wingfield family, although succeeding in some way of the escapism from Amanda, Laura keeps to her precious Gl...

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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 This play I would call tragic drama. ... The only happiness she has is in her glass menagerie. ... The overall theme I got from this play is that Tennessee Williams gives us four characters whose lives consist more of avoiding their reality than facing it. ... She also created a world in her glass menagerie, so she can stay clear of confrontation. ...

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The following two pieces of literature, The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams, and To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, share the common theme of change and transition. ... In this novel, there is surely a theme of change and transition. In the novel The Glass Menagerie, the main character Laura undergoes a series of changes and transition. ... When they get to talking, Laura shows him her favorite figurine from her glass menagerie, the unicorn. ... All in all, the novels To Kill a Mockingbird by Lee and The Glass Menagerie by Williams, the themes of change and transition are ever prese...

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Broken Glass In the play "The Glass Menagerie," one of the central themes is people must grow and change throughout life. ... Jim then breaks the odd balled glass menagerie, the unicorn. It just happens to be Laura's favorite glass and her oldest. But she does not mind that Jim has broken the glass. ... In the beginning of the "Glass Menagerie" Tom is more reserved and calm. ...

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The Glass Menagerie Tennessee Williams" "memory play" originates after World War II in a dark, dreary alley in St. ... Tom had becomes tired of seeing his sister sitting around playing with glass dolls that represent a real world to her. ... Eventually Tom gets so fet up with his situation he says he's going to the movies, and rages out and down the all to familiar fire escape after shattering a glass. ... She has become enveloped into her own small world of glass animals, hence The Glass Menagerie. ... The theme that I get out of the play is the idea that Laura is looking for an...

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The lights dim as the "Glass Menagerie" theme music plays. ... Amanda wonders in a hopeless tone what will become of them if Laura refuses a "business career"; will they play with the glass menagerie and listen to Father's old records all day? ... Williams sought the opposite in The Glass Menagerie: truth disguised as illusion. ... The theme music kicks in. ... All of the characters in The Glass Menagerie's are sympathetic: this is one of the play's great appeals. ...

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Escape The Glass Menagerie is a play of a family of three: a mother and two grown children, who live in a St. ... She spends the amount of her time cleaning and observing her collection of glass figures. ... When Jim comes over, she lets him hold the glass unicorn and says, "Go on, I trust you with him" (459). ... The escape theme demonstrated in the fire escape, the dance hall, Mr. ...

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The household of The Glass Menagerie was undeniably inspired by his own, with several obvious relationships existing. ... The father in The Glass Menagerie had also pursued the same career, and eventually abandoned the family. ... This is -Major Themes and Stylistic Devices- The major themes of Tennessee William's works are drawn mainly from his own life and experiences, even more so than most playwrights. ... • One recurring theme of his work is a pressing sexuality, which "can be read as an obsession with loneliness" ("Williams, Tennessee"). This is evident in The Glas...

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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. The play – which explores the themes of abandonment and the impossibility of true escape - is set in St Louis in the late 1930s. ... In search of companionship, she builds her own fantasy world with her glass-animal friends. ... 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 life, she failed to understand the dif...

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"It is not what an author says, but what he or she whispers that is important." According to this adapted quote by Logan Pearsall Smith, the underlying message that the author is trying to convey, besides the text, is significant. Or, in other words, read between the lines. This statement is true...

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This is literary device is clearly demonstrated in the play "The Glass Menagerie- by Tennessee Williams. ... Laura, Tom's sister is shy natured and disabled with no one to accompany her but the presents of her glass menagerie and memories of her old high school crush, Jim. ... In a room lit by candle light and the sound of music, Jim, the gentlemen caller and Laura stand together while Laura enlightens Jim about her glass menagerie; "LAURA: I shouldn't be partial, but he is my favorite one. ... It doesn't matter Glass breaks so easily. ... The symbols of the unicorn, co...

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The Glass Menagerie is mainly about the spiritual paralysis of human beings as the result of the depressive atmosphere of the society, breakdown of family institution and lack of understanding among even the most intimate persons; that is, the members of a family. In the 1939 letter to his editor, Audrey Wood, Williams states, "I have only one major theme for my work which is the destructive impact of society on the sensitive non-conformist individual" (qtd. in Haley "Rhetoric"). ... There are important autobiographical aspects in The Glass Menagerie and the characters which it depicts. ... ...

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The Search for Happiness Tennesse Williams examines the main theme of happiness in his play "The Glass Menagerie." ... Williams first explores a family that is unable to face reality, using a glass unicorn to represent one family member's uniqueness, Laura. ...

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The overt sexual themes and innovative blend of realism and expressionism captivated audiences and became definitive characteristics of one of the great American playwrights, Tennessee Williams (Wilmeth 686). Not only did 1945 mark the end of World War II, but also the arrival of Tennessee Williams on the Broadway stage with The Glass Menagerie. ...

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As for The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams (1911-1983), the idea conveyed in this play is that of image versus reality. The main theme of this play is about a frustrated family who are deserted by the father and each character escapes his/her reality in a different way. ... Laura has her own imaginary reality through her glass menagerie her private world, and the breaking of it .The unicorn is Laura's singularity, her return to reality, and her return to her retreat back into her world. . ... Butterfly draws attention to the issue of western stereotyping of Asia, Hwang attacks weste...

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