... certainly were better days. The past was a wonderful experience for her compare to the reality which she a now an abandoned wife with two children. Mr. Wingfield was cruel to leave the family but Amanda still loves him. She wears his bathrobe and often looks at the portrait of her husband. She can not put ... and Laura of that one Sunday afternoon in Blue Mountain. She chooses to live in the past. She hopes that the gentleman caller is not handsome because Mr. Wingfield is handsome and he wins her heart in a second. She does not want Tom to be a drunk, have manner in eating, and stop smok...

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... Depression of the 1930's. As a lower class family, the characters are placed in the slums of St. Louis in 1935. The protagonist, Tom Wingfield, is the narrator and Williams" surrogate. Living with his mother and sister, Tom supports them by working in a shoe manufacturing warehouse. He should ... . Unhappy with what life has dealt him, Tom strives for adventure and longs to turn his back on his responsibilities. His mother, Amanda Wingfield, abandoned by her husband almost sixteen years ago, tries to keep her family together through tough times. Although her love and hopes for her ... th...

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Symbolism: The Glass Menagerie Tennessee Williams uses symbolism throughout his classic play The Glass Menagerie. Through the eyes of Tom Wingfield, a character in the play, the reader gets a glance into the life of his family. Tom's mother, Amanda, is a southern belle desperately clinging to her past. Tom has a sister named Laura ... fire escape, Laura's "glass menagerie," and rainbows. One major symbol presented in the story is that of the fire escape, which has a different meaning and function for each of the Wingfield characters. For Tom, the fire escape is a means of escape from fire, n...

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... Laura, the fire escape represents a way to hide from reality by staying inside the illusionary world of the apartment. Another way Williams" ties escape into the story is through Mr. Wingfield, the absent father of Tom and Laura and husband to Amanda. He is the ultimate symbol of escape because he has managed to remove himself from the bad situation that ... ...

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