Deception In Tennessee Williams The Glass Menagerie
Glass Essay
Deception is everywhere is the world and sometime you can help being deceived. Tennessee Williams’, The Glass Menagerie, take place in the early 1930’s. A family of three struggles to maintain united after the absence of their father. Amanda, the mother of Tom and Laura relies on her son to keep up with the bill and on her daughter to get her education and find a husband. Meanwhile all tom wants to do is leave as his father did so he could seek adventure and Laura has dropped out of school and is trying her best to exclude reality. This dramatic play is full of deception and is used as a motif throughout. Laura deceives her mother, Amanda, by dropping out of school and pretending to be there all day. Jim deceives Laura by flirting …show more content…
She did not know who you were. “Wingfield,” she said “We don't have any such student enrolled at the school. I assured her she did, that you had been going to classes since early in January. 'I wonder,' she said, 'if you could be talking about that terribly shy little girl who dropped out of school after only a few days' attendance? 'No,' I said, 'Laura, my daughter, has been going to school every day for the past six weeks!' (13-14)
Amanda felt a hint of deceit from Laura. She was utterly shocked that her daughter was capable of keeping such secrets from her. Laura didn't know what to say to her mother, she walk to her father's old Victrola and started to wind it to put her at ease. Amanda asked her what she had been doing all that time she wasn't at school. Laura said she had been going out on walks. But Amanda refused to believe if, she said she couldn't have gone walk after she just recently gotten over a cold. But Laura begs to differ and tells Amanda, It wasn't as bad as it sounds. I went inside places to get warmed up. (15)
I went in the art museum and the bird-houses at the Zoo. I visited the penguins every day! Sometimes I did without lunch and went to the movies. Lately I've been spending most of my afternoons in the jewel-box, that big glass-house where they raise the tropical
flowers.
Deception is everywhere is the world and sometime you can help being deceived. Tennessee Williams’, The Glass Menagerie, take place in the early 1930’s. A family of three struggles to maintain united after the absence of their father. Amanda, the mother of Tom and Laura relies on her son to keep up with the bill and on her daughter to get her education and find a husband. Meanwhile all tom wants to do is leave as his father did so he could seek adventure and Laura has dropped out of school and is trying her best to exclude reality. This dramatic play is full of deception and is used as a motif throughout. Laura deceives her mother, Amanda, by dropping out of school and pretending to be there all day. Jim deceives Laura by flirting …show more content…
She did not know who you were. “Wingfield,” she said “We don't have any such student enrolled at the school. I assured her she did, that you had been going to classes since early in January. 'I wonder,' she said, 'if you could be talking about that terribly shy little girl who dropped out of school after only a few days' attendance? 'No,' I said, 'Laura, my daughter, has been going to school every day for the past six weeks!' (13-14)
Amanda felt a hint of deceit from Laura. She was utterly shocked that her daughter was capable of keeping such secrets from her. Laura didn't know what to say to her mother, she walk to her father's old Victrola and started to wind it to put her at ease. Amanda asked her what she had been doing all that time she wasn't at school. Laura said she had been going out on walks. But Amanda refused to believe if, she said she couldn't have gone walk after she just recently gotten over a cold. But Laura begs to differ and tells Amanda, It wasn't as bad as it sounds. I went inside places to get warmed up. (15)
I went in the art museum and the bird-houses at the Zoo. I visited the penguins every day! Sometimes I did without lunch and went to the movies. Lately I've been spending most of my afternoons in the jewel-box, that big glass-house where they raise the tropical
flowers.