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        <title><![CDATA[Certainly one of the most touching endings to any play I have read or...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Certainly one of the most touching endings to any play I have read or seen...
Tom's monologue is timed to what is happening between Amanda and Laura in a silent tableau enacted in the background: Amanda comforts her daughter who is lost in disappointment. Laura then blows out the candles of the dream of the love of a long-awaited gentleman caller, as Tom asks for the memory of his sister to be extinguished from his thoughts.
But as he said at...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[At the end of the story, Tom asks Laura to blow out the candles. What...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[At the end of the story, Tom asks Laura to blow out the candles. What does that action symbolize to Tom?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 29 Nov 2009 12:15:56 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[A production of "The Glass Menagerie" is not all that demanding in terms...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[A production of "The Glass Menagerie" is not all that demanding in terms of set design, props or costumes. First, read this:

The apartment faces an alley and is entered by a fire-escape, a structure whose name is a touch of accidental poetic truth, for all of these huge buildings are always burning with the slow and implacable fires of human desperation. The fire-escape is included in the set - that is, the landing of it and steps descending...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 29 Nov 2009 07:56:52 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The Glass Menagerie- a production...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The Glass Menagerie- a production...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 29 Nov 2009 00:57:00 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Amanda is under the illusion, as many Southerners were after the Civil...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Amanda is under the illusion, as many Southerners were after the Civil War, that her Southern heritage entitled her and her family to a high social status.  She lives in the past and exaggerates her relationships with men, all of which are defense mechanisms to avoid the reality that her husband has abandoned her.
She loves her children, but she dotes on them entirely too much.  She even calls herself a "witch" at one point.  She has a hard...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 28 Nov 2009 13:15:29 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What is Amanda Wingfield's personality like?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What is Amanda Wingfield's personality like?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 28 Nov 2009 10:08:10 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In addition to the above comments, the glass menagerie is a complex...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In addition to the above comments, the glass menagerie is a complex symbol. Not only does it symbolize Laura and the inner change Laura's evening with Jim precipitates, it also represents Amanda's belief about her children and her attempt to keep them together and her hopes for their future prospects. Though it may be that Amanda tells her stories of her past life out of regret and self-aggrandizement, it may also be that she tells her stories...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 08:25:11 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The plot of The Glass Menagerie is a three-fold conflict. The first...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The plot of The Glass Menagerie is a three-fold conflict. The first involves Tom, who is thrown into a job he doesn't like because the family has been abandoned by the father and Tom was the only one who could support the family, which consists of the mother Amanda and his sister Laura, who has a brace on her leg. Tom has to decide between his mother and sister and his own life and aspirations. The second involves Amanda who is tragically...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 08:11:26 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What are the plot, summary and conclusion of the drama The Glass Menagerie?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What are the plot, summary and conclusion of the drama The Glass Menagerie?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 08:43:28 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[compare and contrast Amanda and Laura in the play the glass menagerie....]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[compare and contrast Amanda and Laura in the play the glass menagerie. how are they alike and/or not alike.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 5 Nov 2009 08:13:57 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Tom, the narrator of the play, and one of its three main characters,...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Tom, the narrator of the play, and one of its three main characters, wants to escape from his deeply unsatisfying situation: the life he lives with his overbearing, neurotic mother and his shy, nervous sister. And a big symbol of the play is the fire escape where all the play's entrances and exits are made:

The apartment faces an alley and is entered by a fire-escape, a structure whose name is a touch of accidental poetic truth, for all of...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 15:15:36 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[How/Why is the theme of escaping explored in the Glass menagerie play?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[How/Why is the theme of escaping explored in the Glass menagerie play?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 05:14:31 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA["Matriarchal" is not a term I would use to describe Amanda in any scene...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA["Matriarchal" is not a term I would use to describe Amanda in any scene of The Glass Menagerie. She certainly tries to dominate and rule the lives of her children, but she does so with a shrill insecurity that is not characteristic of a true matriarch.
Amanda is a single mother who has been abandoned by her husband and left, in almost poverty, to care for her two grown children. She is then, by default, the primary caregiver for her offspring,...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 18:18:31 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Do you argue that Amanda is presented as a matriachal figure in scene 5...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Do you argue that Amanda is presented as a matriachal figure in scene 5 of The Glass Menagerie?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 21:29:22 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[It is quite unlikely that you will find any of the actual images or...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[It is quite unlikely that you will find any of the actual images or "screen legends" used in a production of The Glass Menagerie as even the original 1945 Broadway production of the play did not include them.
Tennessee Williams' original idea was:

"The legend or image upon the screen will strengthen the effect of what is merely allusion in the writing and allow the primary point to be made more simply and lightly than if the entire...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 10:28:56 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Where can I find the actual images that were shown on the screen during...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Where can I find the actual images that were shown on the screen during The Glass Menagerie?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 08:29:11 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In the conclusion of the play, Tom and Amanda have a furious, and...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In the conclusion of the play, Tom and Amanda have a furious, and final, argument after which Tom storms out of the apartment for the last time. He leaves his family behind in St. Louis to pursue an independent life of his own. There is evidence in Tom's conversation with Jim O'Connor that evening that Tom had formulated a plan to leave anyway, and it later becomes clear that Tom had used the money to pay the electric bill for other...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 12:12:55 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[
How does Amanda go about implementing her plan?
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        <description><![CDATA[
How does Amanda go about implementing her plan?
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        <pubDate>Wed, 7 Oct 2009 16:40:33 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Tom leaves to be free of his responsibilities toward his family--does...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Tom leaves to be free of his responsibilities toward his family--does this plan work for him?
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        <pubDate>Sun, 4 Oct 2009 09:41:28 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The Glass Menagerie: Short Answer Essay Assignment]]></title>
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