How Does The Glass Menagerie Affect Society

There is many points of The Glass Menagerie that affect the characters. They all fall in certain standards of society. Especially the characters that are part of the play. They all are different but they meet certain standards and miss some of them. Sometimes the standards they have to meet are not the ones they want to meet and ignore them. The Glass Menagerie has standards and the characters act very differently to them. The society in the world they live is to revolutionize the states and grow more. Also, to make better technology and develop the country. That is how society and the world wants them to be. To be innovative and change the world. Sparknotes says,”She enrolls Laura in a business college, hoping that she will make her own and the family’s fortune through a business career.” That says that the standards of society are to develop and innovate.
To go to school and do something that can change and the world and sustain him. Tom does not think much about it and just ignores it. He does not want to change his ways and would rather go to the movies and live in his fantasies of adventure. The play also says,” All right, I will! The more you shout about my selfishness to me the quicker I’ll go, and I won’t go to the movies!” (Tennessee Willams 136) Tom’s id is just to go to the movies and that is it. That is all he wants to do. The superego for Tom is to act normal but gets mad when people do not agree with him. He is not respectful but acts like a immature child. Tom’s ego is he wants to be like his father and endure in adventure with no