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The Glass Menagerie
Amanda: But, why—why, Tom—are you always so restless? Where do you go to, nights? Tom: I—go to the movies. Amanda: Why do you go to the movies so much, Tom? Tom: I go to the movies...
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The Glass Menagerie
In The Glass Menagerie, Tennessee Williams presents a generational difference in the characters’ attitudes, as well as personal differences between the siblings. Of the three Wingfield family...
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The Glass Menagerie
At the beginning of scene five, Tom breaks the fourth wall and addresses the audience directly. As he stands on the fire-escape landing, he starts to reminisce about the area in which he grew up....
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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
This play by Tennessee Williams presets Tom Wingfield as the protagonist, but he is not necessarily the hero. Tom uses the play in part to explain his decision to leave home, which meant leaving...
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The Glass Menagerie
All of my gentlemen callers were sons of planters and so of course I assumed that I would be married to one and raise my family on a large piece of land with plenty of servants. But man...
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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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The Glass Menagerie
As Williams himself writes in the play's extensive production notes, nostalgia is the first condition of the play. Throughout The Glass Menagerie, Williams contrasts the nostalgia of memory with...
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The Glass Menagerie
The characters in the Wingfield family are very closely connected, but the relationships seem co-dependent rather than healthy. In that respect, the siblings and mother are all tied through...
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The Glass Menagerie
The concept of the American Dream is evident in both Tom, the protagonist, and Jim, the former high school hero. In Tom the American Dream is evidenced in his inability to settle down, make a...
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The Glass Menagerie
In The Glass Menagerie, Jim O’Connor is Tom Wingfield’s friend from work. To satisfy his mother’s nagging, Tom has invited Jim to dinner at their home. Jim is the antithesis of the entire...
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The Glass Menagerie
The Glass Menagerie is a memory play. The narrator, Tom, begins by saying that "the play is memory." He refers to the play as "sentimental" and suggests that it is not entirely based on realism....
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The Glass Menagerie
Interestingly, the characters of Tennessee Williams's play, The Glass Menagerie, are themselves somewhat symbolic. For, Williams's play is not realistic; instead, it is expressionistic, and so the...
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The Glass Menagerie
When Jim and Laura were in school together, Laura was weak and sickly. One day, Jim asked Laura what was wrong with her, and her reply, Pleurosis, was taken by Jim, who didn't know that word, to...
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The Glass Menagerie
The play has been made into two major films: the 1950 version, directed by Irving Rapper and starring Kirk Douglas, and the 1987 version, directed by Paul Newman and starring John Malkovich and...
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The Glass Menagerie
There are at least four prevalent themes in Tennesse Williams's The Glass Menagerie. Reality vs. Self-Deception Each of the three main characters have great difficulty in dealing with reality. In...
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The Glass Menagerie
In Tennessee Williams's play The Glass Menagerie, the character of Laura Wingfield is characterized as a young woman whose foot malformation makes her limp. This is considered a flaw to her...
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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
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
I think that you might be better set to provide a bit more background into your question, but I think I can attempt to articulate a vision of Tennessee Williams' characterizations. I think a good...
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The Glass Menagerie
In The Glass Menagerie, the glass collection symbolizes aspects of Laura. On the one hand, she appears to be as fragile as the little animals. On the other hand, as an effect of light shining...
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The Glass Menagerie
Ethos is defined in different ways, but it is basically the credibility in terms of style, tone and characterization that is used by the writer to convey his work upon the audience. Tennessee...
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The Glass Menagerie
The conflict between Amanda and Tom in this masterful play centres on the way in which Tom feels drawn to, as his father did, seek his fortune and discover himself through venturing away from his...
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The Glass Menagerie
Tom as narrator closes the play with a monologue explaining what his life became after he stormed out of the apartment in St. Louis, leaving his mother and sister behind. The theme of his speech is...
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The Glass Menagerie
In Scene 7, the power goes off because Tom has not paid the bill, having used the money to join the Union of Merchant Seamen. With the electricity gone, candles are used to light the room, lending...
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The Glass Menagerie
After learning that Laura has not been going to Rubicam's Business College, in Scene 3 of The Glass Menagerie, Amanda is convinced that Laura needs to be married. So, getting a gentleman caller...
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The Glass Menagerie
The Glass Menagerie has three main characters: there is a mother and her two children. The mother is Amanda; she has a daughter named Laura and a son named Tom. Tom introduces and narrates the...
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The Glass Menagerie
The Glass Menagerie is full of illusions. Each main character in the play is living an illusion of some sort. Amanda, for example, tries to live through Laura. Amanda wants and longs to...
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The Glass Menagerie
Laura is an important character, as is Amanda, but I don't believe she is the protagonist. Tom Wingfield is the protagonist; the story belongs to him. The drama focuses on Tom's internal and...
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The Glass Menagerie
The ending scene in the drama helps to bring out many of the central ideas that had been present throughout it. One such idea is the construction of what is "normal." Laura's disclosure that the...
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The Glass Menagerie
In the play, the glass unicorn is symbolic of Laura's belief that she is different from everyone else because of her disability. Like the unicorn, who is different from the other horses, because...
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The Glass Menagerie
There are many symbols used in the play. In fact, the play is so rich that it overflows with them. The core symbol is, of course, the glass menagerie that gives the play its title—Laura's...
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The Glass Menagerie
At a first glace, it is tempting to jump to a quick conclusion and declare that Jim is a foil of Tom in that they are contemporaries but Jim is more stable and mature than Tom. However, when you...
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The Glass Menagerie
In the play's moving--and ironic--conclusion, Tom (as narrator) recounts what his life had become after leaving home. He had achieved freedom without ever being free: I traveled around a great...
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The Glass Menagerie
Amanda is convinced that unless Laura marries, she will have no one to support her after Amanda dies. She put Laura in business school but Laura so sick to her stomach during a typing test, that...
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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
Tom is a tragic hero in The Glass Menagerie. He is trapped in a situation that he cannot get out of, his position in the family as breadwinner. He can't get out of this situation without...
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The Glass Menagerie
I think that Laura's exchange with her mother in Scene two helps to reveal much within her that is in conflict with the outside world. In this confrontation, there is much gained about Laura and...
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The Glass Menagerie
Tom's problem was that he could not find himself, nor his place in society, was overall disillusioned with life and his life prospects and he just had nothing in common with his mother and sister....
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The Glass Menagerie
Different symbols relate to different themes, I believe.For example, the glass menagerie relates to the theme of social outcasts. One of Tennessee Williams' favorite themes is what is society's...
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The Glass Menagerie
A reversal of Realism, Expressionism is employed in Tennesse Williams's play, especially in the character of Amanda Wingfield, who retreats into her illusions where she has lived vitally in...
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The Glass Menagerie
The major similarity between Tom and his father is that Tom, like his father would like to leave his family. Amanda, his mother, suggests a number of ways in which his habits remind her of his...
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The Glass Menagerie
You should talk about the three main character and their relationship to both illusion and reality. Tom seems to have the firmest grip on reality. He holds down a job and is the economic foundation...
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The Glass Menagerie
This exchange between Amanda and Jim is an attempt by Amanda to feel comfortable with the dark while Jim is at the apartment for dinner. She has to make light of the embarrassing situation, so she...
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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...
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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
Amanda nags her son Tom about the proper way to chew his food, she reprimands him for going to the movies too much. She returns a book he is reading to the Library because she thought it was...
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The Glass Menagerie
In William's The Glass Menagerie, Tom's behavior is unacceptable. His family needs him, and society will be unable to care for them. Tom has been abandoned by his father, as have his sister and his...
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The Glass Menagerie
In the first scene of the play, Amanda's goals seem to be for her children to attain wealth and status. She chastises Tom for his sloppy habits at the table, and above all encourages Laura to keep...
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The Glass Menagerie
In The Glass Menagerie, Tom plays the part of the narrator as well as that of the protagonist. Because he is telling us the story of his family, with an emphasis on how it has affected him, a...
