The Glass Menagerie Struggles
In 1944 Tennessee Williams playwrights The Glass Menagerie, a memory play about the lives of the Wingfield’s. A family of 3, Amanda, Laura, and Tom Wingfield, who lived together in an apartment in St. Louis 1937 during the pre-war depression era. The play comments on the way people would try to distract themselves from the unpleasant events that would surround them every day. Williams wrote the journey and “the hopelessness of the Wingfield family" (Beaurline 4) and how they struggled to manage their lives.
The Glass Menagerie was originally called The Gentleman Caller. It was Williams first successful play that launched his career from obscurity to fame. the characters were based on Williams himself, mother, and his sister Rose. The play …show more content…
Laura had withdrawn from the world, she had "failed to establish contact with reality, continues to live vitally in her illusions" (Williams 3). She removed herself from what was real into what was a fantasy.
Lara had a glass menagerie that she cared for with all her heart. When she needed comfort she would stay in her room and spend time with her figurines. Laura had a limp, caused by a childhood illness that made one leg slightly shorter than the other. Because of this she had to wear a brace. She felt that the brace caught a lot of unwanted attention which made her isolate herself from others, Laura sheltered herself “she is like a piece of her own glass collection” (levy 3). She was timid, shy, and reluctant to try anything out of her comfort zone.
Her only comforts were her old phonograph records and glass animals. “With an outraged groan he tears the coat off again, splitting the shoulder of it, and hurls it across the room. It strikes against the shelf of Laura’s glass collection, and there is a tinkle of shattering glass. Laura cries out as if wounded”. (Williams 22). Each small animal needed care just like her, she was so connected to that glass she soon became just as
The Glass Menagerie was originally called The Gentleman Caller. It was Williams first successful play that launched his career from obscurity to fame. the characters were based on Williams himself, mother, and his sister Rose. The play …show more content…
Laura had withdrawn from the world, she had "failed to establish contact with reality, continues to live vitally in her illusions" (Williams 3). She removed herself from what was real into what was a fantasy.
Lara had a glass menagerie that she cared for with all her heart. When she needed comfort she would stay in her room and spend time with her figurines. Laura had a limp, caused by a childhood illness that made one leg slightly shorter than the other. Because of this she had to wear a brace. She felt that the brace caught a lot of unwanted attention which made her isolate herself from others, Laura sheltered herself “she is like a piece of her own glass collection” (levy 3). She was timid, shy, and reluctant to try anything out of her comfort zone.
Her only comforts were her old phonograph records and glass animals. “With an outraged groan he tears the coat off again, splitting the shoulder of it, and hurls it across the room. It strikes against the shelf of Laura’s glass collection, and there is a tinkle of shattering glass. Laura cries out as if wounded”. (Williams 22). Each small animal needed care just like her, she was so connected to that glass she soon became just as