The Glass Menagerie (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
At a glance:
- Author: Tennessee Williams
- First Published: 1945
- Type of Work: Drama
- Type of Plot: Psychological realism
- Time of Work: 1930’s
- Genres: Drama, Psychological drama, Tragedy
- Subjects: United States or Americans, Mothers, Parents and children, South or Southerners, 1930’s, Disabilities or physically challenged persons
- Locales: St. Louis, MO
Places Discussed
Wingfield apartment. St. Louis, Missouri, home of the narrator, Tom Wingfield, and his mother and sister. Along with its outside fire-escape landing, this apartment is the setting for the entire play. It is too small for the Wingfields’ needs—Laura sleeps on a sofa bed in the living room—and its contents are worn and aging. The contrast between the dingy apartment and the world in which Tom’s mother, Amanda, alludes to having grown up in is striking. During the play’s first scene, Amanda relates a well-worn story of her youth in Blue Mountain in rural...
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