... inimical to transcendent ideal and aspiration" (Thompson 6). In order to give the impression of the reality of such a situation, Williams represents his play as the construction of Tom Wingfield's memory. There are important autobiographical aspects in The Glass Menagerie and the characters which it depicts. These biographical connections are important in understanding the characters. Tennessee Williams himself admits the ... and terminally shy is to some extent a representation of Tennessee's beloved sister Rose, whom the family had lobotomized in an ill-fated attempt to cure her psych...

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Scenes 1+2 The Wingfield apartment faces an alley in a lower middle class St. Louis tenement. There is a fire escape with a landing that serves as a porch. "The scene is memory," indicate the stage directions, and, ... family's poverty, general boredom. On a larger level, that coffin can be seen as membership in the "fundamentally enslaved section of American society" that Williams describes in the stage directions. The Wingfield's apartment does not have a balcony or porch; it has a fire escape landing. This is no accident. Turning once more to the stage directions of Scene I, we read that ...

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