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The Glass Menagerie
Components of the play's setting that are important to the drama are: the claustrophobic atmosphere of the Wingfields' apartment the urban setting the fire escape The time aspect of the setting...
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Reference
Since eNotes policy allows for one question per post, I will answer your first question. In the final moments of The Glass Menagerie, Tom leaves his mother, Amanda, and his sister, Laura, for a new...
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The Glass Menagerie
In this passage, Tom is reflecting on his memory of his sister Laura as someone who will never be able to move in the world as others do because of her shyness and lack of confidence about her...
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The Glass Menagerie
The Glass Menagerie opens with notes on stage construction, poetically accented with Williams' social consciousness. He compares urban buildings to insect hives and warts, with heavily entrenched...
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The Glass Menagerie
The Glass Menagerie follows the closely intertwined lives of Amanda Wingfield and her adult children, Tom and Laura. Jim, Tom's coworker and Laura's former classmate, joins the family for dinner...
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The Glass Menagerie
Jim O'Connor is a "nice, ordinary young man" who seems to be emblematic of the all-American boy. There is nothing particularly special about him, and he seems to have the exact same interests as...
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The Glass Menagerie
Laura suffers from what we would today call social anxiety, but in Tennessee Williams' time might be referred to as being "painfully shy." Her ability to function in the everyday world of work and...
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The Glass Menagerie
Laura's conflict is that she wants to be loved, but she also fears interaction with the world. She is emotionally fragile, as fragile as the glass collection she is always washing and polishing....
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The Glass Menagerie
As a family unit, Tom, Laura, and Amanda are first impacted by the Great Depression through the departure of Amanda's husband (Tom and Laura's father). Unraveled by the collapsed economy, Amanda's...
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The Glass Menagerie
Tom's character arc throughout the play is a circular one, since Tom is looking back on a story that has already taken place. Tom cautions the audience that his memory may be faulty, but he will...
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The Glass Menagerie
The experience of seeing a play performed as compared to reading a novel is summed up by the idea that reading text is usually visualized in the reader's mind; but drama bring that vision to life...
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Of Mice and Men
These two plays, besides being both authored by Americans, have very little in common. Glass Menagerie is a family play, set in a small interior space, while Of Mice and Men is a play about a...
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The Glass Menagerie
All of the characters in The Glass Menagerie suffer from some kind of disillusionment. Amanda is perhaps the most disillusioned character in the book. She imagines a wildly romantic life for her...
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The Glass Menagerie
"Two Kinds" by Amy Tan and The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams both explore the complex relationships between mothers and daughters. In each case, the mother exerts powerful control over the...
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The Glass Menagerie
Tom immediately assumes the role of narrator, even though he will also be a main character in the play. "I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion," he says, promising to be not so much...
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The Glass Menagerie
Laura Wingfield's glass menagerie is a collection of exotic, even mythical animals. While Laura lives a very sheltered life, crippled with anxiety and dominated by her wistful, controlling mother,...
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The Glass Menagerie
The Glass Menagerie, a famous play by Tennessee Williams, has four characters within the play. However, Tom Wingfield is arguably the main character of The Glass Menagerie. There is some argument...
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The Glass Menagerie
In Scene Four of "The Glass Menagerie", the protagonist, Tom, returns home after a night of drinking. He describes a magic show that he had just seen, involving a magician who had himself nailed...
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The Glass Menagerie
As a narrator, Tom is looking back in time, retrospectively. As such, he has had the time to analyze the events of the night when he left the household, and he has been away from his family long...
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The Glass Menagerie
I'm assuming you are asking this question literally. Laura and the other characters of the play are in St. Louis, Missouri. She shares a home with her brother, Tom, and her mother, Amanda. She is...
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The Glass Menagerie
In scene 4 of the play The Glass Menagerie Amanda Wingfield asks her son, Tom, to look in his workplace (the warehouse) for a potential beau for her socially awkward daughter, Laura. There is a...
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The Glass Menagerie
Tennessee Williams's The Glass Menagerie is, first of all, a play whose universal appeal will gain the attention of young audiences, and hopeful actors as well. Second, the stage directions are...
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The Glass Menagerie
Let's first establish that The Glass Menagerie is what is known as a "memory play." This term was actually coined by Tennessee Williams himself to explain the nature of this particular play, one...
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The Glass Menagerie
Major works of literature such as The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams, unlike simple fables or sermons, rarely have singular lessons; in fact, it is precisely their complexity and lack of...
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The Glass Menagerie
One distinct comparison between Tom and Amanda lies in how both are unhappy with the present. A point of contrast would be in how they address it. It is clear that Tom and Amanda don't share much...
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The Glass Menagerie
The question is very unclear with respect to the version or edition of Tennessee Williams' 1945 play The Glass Menagerie. What follows, therefore, is an attempt at responding to the student's...
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The Glass Menagerie
In Tennessee Williams's play The Glass Menagerie, one place in which Tom's character is significantly developed is during the quarrel between him and his mother in scene III. During this quarrel,...
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The Glass Menagerie
Tennessee Williams' play, "The Glass Menagerie" is the story of a deeply flawed family, consisting of a mother Amanda Wingfield, who has been abandoned by her alcoholic husband, her emotionally...
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Antigone
One similarity between Ismene in Sophocles' play Antigone and Laura in Tennessee Williams's play The Glass Menagerie is their tendency to shy away from situations and their inability to act.In the...
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Antigone
In both Antigone and The Glass Menagerie, connection to family plays an important role; indeed, Antigone and Tom are tied in inextricable spiritual bonds of obligation to their siblings. Condemned...
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Antigone
One similarity we can see between the title character Antigone in Sophocles' play Antigone and Amanda Wingfield, the mother, in Tennessee Williams's play The Glass Menagerie is their ability to be...
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Antigone
One similarity we can see between Haemon in Sophocles' play Antigone and Laura in Tennessee Williams's play The Glass Menagerie is that both feel equally unheard by their parents.In Antigone,...
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Antigone
Stubbornness is a main attribute shared by both Creon in Sophocles' Antigone and Amanda, the mother, in Tennessee Williams's The Glass Menagerie.Creon's stubbornness is displayed in both the fact...
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The Glass Menagerie
Hello! You asked about comparing Tom and Laura in 'The Glass Menagerie.' 1)Temperament Laura is a fragile young woman. Her disability is a source of her depression; she takes refuge in her glass...
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The Glass Menagerie
The first thing to consider when analyzing characters like Tom and Laura, who are siblings, is whether the central problem of the story equally affects both, and in which ways. That is the easiest...
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The Glass Menagerie
In Tom Wingfield's opening speech, he identifies the different characters that will play a role in the dynamics that are about to unfold. He mentions himself, his mother Amanda, his sister Laura,...
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The Glass Menagerie
According to one criticism, the Expressionist play, The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams, ...identifies the conquest of reality by illusion as a huge and growing aspect of the human...
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The Glass Menagerie
“This is my sister, celebrate her with strings" comes from the play The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams and is set in 1937 in pre-war America. The play focuses on the dysfunctional family...
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The Glass Menagerie
The three examples I have picked involve Amanda, Tom, and Jim respectively. Note: this movie adaptation follows the original play very closely and I will give the scenes from the play in which...
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The Glass Menagerie
In the first scene of The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams, Tom Wingfield (as the narrator) tells us that we are going to meet what turns out to be the only non-Wingfield character in the...
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The Glass Menagerie
Tom Wingfield has a lot of reasons for wanting to leave home in The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams. His mother, Amanda, is annoying and is constantly nagging at him about how he eats and...
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The Glass Menagerie
The exact quote from The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams is found in the final scene of the play. It is spoken by the narrator, Tom Wingfield, and it reads this way: I didn't go to the moon,...
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The Glass Menagerie
Amanda hopes that Laura will get married to a nice man and settle down. She imagines all manner of gentleman callers for her and is thrilled when one does finally materialize, in the shape of Tom...
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The Glass Menagerie
There is no direct dialogue that addresses when the father “fell in love with long distance.” But some assumptions can be made. Tom must have been near employable age, as there is no mention...
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The Glass Menagerie
Laura's first response to almost everybody is to not engage. She immediately retreats. This retreat can be just a simple lack of eye contact or moving to be in a more oblique position to the...
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The Glass Menagerie
Part of the background story on Laura is that she lives in a house where the dominant personalities of Tom and Amanda have overtaken everything else. Laura is not given much of a chance to express...
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The Glass Menagerie
Your question presumes that each of the characters in The Glass Menagerie, by Tennessee Williams, is a failure, which is a big assumption. Though it is true that this is not a particularly hopeful...
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The Glass Menagerie
Tom's opening speech that provides the background to the drama is significant in a couple of ways. The first is that it establishes the drama's trajectory. Being able to provide the guidance as a...
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The Glass Menagerie
The best way to determine who is the main character of a literary work is to determine how the plot changes the character, and whether the plot tends to focalize the point of view of a particular...
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The Glass Menagerie
The social difficulties and issues of Laura's character in The Glass Menagerie stem from the woman's evident social anxiety. In turn, the social anxiety is caused by a combination of her mother's...
