The Glass Menagerie (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Tennessee Williams
- First Published: 1945
- Type of Work: Drama
- Type of Plot: Psychological realism
- Time of Work: 1930’s
- Setting: St. Louis, Missouri
- Principal Characters: Tom Wingfield, Amanda Wingfield, Laura Wingfield, Jim O’Connor
- 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
The Story:
Tom and Laura’s father—Amanda Wingfield’s husband—had abandoned his family some years ago, and Tom tells the audience that he is about to relate a “memory play,” “truth in the pleasant guise of illusion.” The time Tom recalls is during the Depression, when he lived with his mother and sister in a St. Louis apartment building described as “one of those vast hive-like conglomerations of cellular living-units.” Amanda dominated the household as an aging Southern belle who retained her girlish charm as well as an eternal optimism and a fierce...
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