... to ignore them completely. They engross themselves in their own little world in order to escape reality. We see various examples of this with the Wingfield family in Tennessee Williams' theatrical masterpiece, "The Glass Menagerie." Amanda Wingfield is the mother of Tom and Laura. She is a "southern belle" whose glory days have long since faded away. She is struggling to ... . This is her way of escaping the harsh reality of her failed marriage, crippled daughter, and distant son. Tom Wingfield is the son of Amanda and the brother of Laura. He has multiple means of escaping the restricti...

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... feels trapped and is looking for a way out. Williams" characters are all lost in a dreamy state of illusion or escape wishing for something that they don't have. The mother, Amanda Wingfield, was at one time the pick of the crop during her grandeur days of the Old South, but now she is weak and struggling to survive. In the beginning of ... a state of illusion but convinced that she is not, and this makes her flawed and responsible for the tragedy that came upon them even though she didn't realize it. Laura Wingfield is a romantic, who has a physical defect which causes her to limp slig...

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... my own feelings about the endings. In the play "The Glass Menagerie", I found the ending to be inappropriate. The symbol of Laura Wingfield blowing out the candles to me is unclear. On the other hand, when her brother Tom Wingfield stops at a shop where perfume is sold, and spots different colored bottles, he automatically thinks of his sister Laura. This is correct ... ...

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... brother and sister, living in the dream world of their mother, they both hide from what reality has to offer. Their Mother, Amanda Wingfield, loved her children dearly. Maybe too dearly, she loved her children in such a way she lived the life she wanted as a child through them. First off, Tom, The man of ... ...

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Mosaics, Glass Shells, and the Power of Introversion Both Laura, a fictional character in the play, The Glass Menagerie, and Temple Grandin, the author of "Genius May Be an Abnormality: Educating Students with Asperger's Syndrome", can be categorized as introverts: Grandin, labeled with autism, and Laura, with "inferiority complex", as Jim calls it. Both abnormalities are analogous in the sense that both involve awkward social skills and self doubt, and a passion, or genius in one single thing. Laura, like children with autism, is crippled, she is "abnormal" to her society, and she is afraid o...

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