play set in the home the Wingfield family. The play is about a young man‚ Tom‚ who lives with his mother‚ Amanda and his sister‚ Laura. The play explores the various struggles of each individual during the great depression. The characters all have their flaws and motives which help us to understand them and sympathise or agree with them. All the characters in the play behave in some sort of obsessive manner; however‚ Amanda behaves most strongly this way. Amanda Wingfield is one of the main characters
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to represent the broken lives of Amanda‚ Laura and Tom Wingfield. Williams’ use of symbols adds depth to the play. The Glass Menagerie symbolizes Amanda Wingfield’s need to cling to her past and her fear of being alone once her children have chosen a path for their lives. Amanda resents the poor neighbourhood in which she lives so much that she needs to mentally escape from it by making illusions of the past and self-deception. Abandoned by her husband‚ Amanda comforts herself with recollections
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Williams uses many symbols to give different meanings and themes; however‚ the dominate symbol is the glass menagerie. The three main characters in "The Glass Menagerie" are symbolic of the menagerie itself. Like the tiny glass animals‚ Laura‚ Amanda‚ and Tom are trapped by fragile illusions and are unable to move forward from a world of fantasy into reality. However‚ of the three main characters Laura is the most important to the play because she is the axis around which the
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moral obligation and private passion. Pressing matters of family or work may call one to put personal aspirations on hold for the sake of the whole. But does one necessitate abandonment of the other? Which way will lead to a happier life? Tom Wingfield‚ the disillusioned narrator of Tennessee Williams’ Depression-era play‚ “The Glass Menagerie‚” must battle through this specific plight. He struggles to find the answer to the question of when desire overrides duty. All humans are blessed with
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and their obligations to each other and themselves. The Wingfield family is not living in reality and therefore cannot be honest with each other about themselves. This leads to misguided perceptions of each other and their situation. Tennessee Williams’ play is somewhat autobiographical as each character has similarities to people in his life. Williams was using the play as a way to reveal human nature as it relates to family. Tom Wingfield narrates the story as he looks back on the time before
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fragile people are really strong people. (“BrainyQuotes”) In his play‚ The Glass Menagerie‚ Tennessee Williams based the characters off of people in his life. These characters‚ and people‚ often found themselves overwhelmed by each other. Tom Wingfield was not only one of the main characters
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The Wingfields have an amount of problems‚ so they have things that they use to escape from life with. Tom uses the fire escape as his escape from Amanda. Laura has her glass collection‚ her “Glass Menagerie”‚ which she has her own imaginative world in – a world away from everything else‚ fragile but colorful. This glass collection also represents a number of things about Laura’s personality. Like the glass figures‚ Laura is old-fashioned‚ whimsical‚ and gentle. Outside of the Wingfields’ apartment
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audience that the play’s fifth character is his absent father present only in the form of a picture that hangs on the wall. This picture that looms above the dining room table makes the reader visualize the Wingfield apartment as a shrine to deadbeat fatherhood. The father’s presence in the Wingfield family is sustained only by a tangible medium [the portrait] while in actuality‚ he is no longer apart of the family. As is seen in the scene where Tom leaves home‚ the male figures are the ones to leave
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ever so content way. At other times one remains lost‚ underappreciated‚ and ultimately carries with them a perilous‚ loathing attitude. Willy Loman drives his life to the point of no return where images of his past become his contorted reality. Amanda Wingfield slips on the white dress of her adolescence and is suddenly thrown back in time‚ living as if she were the young girl she once was at Blue Mountain. Death of the Salesman by Arthur Miller was published in 1949‚ only four years preceding Tennessee
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settings will be discarded‚ but the original vision of Tennessee Williams will remain intact by keeping elements essential to recounting the Wingfield Family struggles. As director of the updated production of The Glass Menagerie‚ one would first have to look at the type of speaking style and dialogue as a means to modernize the original content. In the play‚ Amanda‚ the mother‚ is characteristic of a southern belle. Her language reflects the stereotypical tradition and the polite nature of a southern
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