... poverty, confusion, and pathos. The Glass Menagerie and The Grapes of Wrath are works of literature set in this time period. They both focus on describing the lives of Americans trying to make their living. These books convey the difficulty and stress that families had to go through just to earn a pitiful living. 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 ... through is running away from his problems, which is as selfish of an act as one could ever find. The similari...

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