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    Shannon Miller Prof Luciano 11 April 2013 Comp 111 Amanda Wingfield: A Woman of the Past The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams is a play about a family filled with characters who view time and their lives very differently. Tom lives his life very much in the present while his sister Laura lives her life barely at all. Then‚ there is their mother Amanda. Amanda almost lives her life I denial‚ not as much as Laura though of course. She perceives time in a unique way by never actually living

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    “ The Glass Menagerie” By: The props used in the play the glass menagerie are important to the development of the story. It helps us understand the situation and how each character deals with it. A lot of the props used in “The Glass Menagerie” are also symbols that helps us understand the situation of the characters. By the role that each prop has to the development in the play we can see an importance and also a symbolism in the story. Trough the props and the importance of it to the character

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    Great Gatsby represents the American Dream gone bad. the characters of Gatsby and Buchanan‚ both‚ in different ways‚ represent the falseness of the American Dream. Some scholars claim that the novel conveys the idea that life is meaningless and holds no hopeful promise‚ that the dream of a brighter future‚ while it may be motivating‚ will ultimately prove an illusion. Other scholars disagree and claim the novel conveys the idea that there is meaning in life and the possibility

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    A person’s path to enlightenment and understanding can be tumultuous and challenging. In the play‚ The Glass Menagerie‚ by Tennessee Williams‚ each character has difficulty accepting reality. This makes them withdraw into their own little world of illusion to find a sense comfort and peace. In The Glass Menagerie‚ the author presents The Glass Menagerie as a metaphor for the Wingfield family along with other families during the Great Depression. In the setting of the Wingfield‚ family homeland might

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    An Analysis of The Glass Menagerie Dysfunctional families are common to films‚ novels and plays. They contain the drama and escape that people search for in entertainment. In Tennessee Williams’ play The Glass Menagerie‚ the author explores the memory of Tom Wingfield‚ investigating the family dynamic with the absence of a father figure‚ the presence of an overbearing matriarch and the constant need by each family member to find an escape. Amanda Wingfield is the matriarch of the Wingfield household

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    idea that a person should use his life to make it the best that he believes it can possibly be‚ no matter what is done to achieve it. Two books that accurately portray this idea are The Sea Wolf by Jack London and The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. The characters of Jay Gatsby and Wolf Larsen validate the theory that life is created to live and grow into the most dominant form of that person in order to survive and thrive. In the novel The Sea Wolf by Jack London‚ the character of Wolf Larsen

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    Austin Gardner Homer English 112 April 27‚ 2015 A Deception Born Family In The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams‚ the author writes about the experience of a small family living in St. Louis. The three main characters: Tom‚ Amanda‚ and Laura all have issues of their own‚ causing them to live in their own fantasies. Tom and Laura were abandoned by their father years before the setting of the play‚ having no form of contact with him. Deception‚ one of the most important themes in the play‚ will

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    “The Glass Menagerie” In “The Glass Menagerie” Williams’s use of symbolism represents several different themes. Many of the symbols used in the play signify the impossibility of true escape‚ the differences between illusion and reality‚ abandonment‚ and the power of memory (as it is a memory play). One of the more obvious symbols that we notice is the fire escape. It represents the connection between the illusionary world of the characters and the “real” world. The fire escape represents something

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    In the novel The Great Gatsby by Francis Scott Fitzgerald‚ the narrator Nick Carraway‚ a young man from a wealthy family in the West‚ moves out to the East to live on his own‚ renting a small house in West Egg near Manhattan. Nick’s tiny house is surrounded by the mansions of newly rich millionaires‚ and the biggest‚ grandest mansion of them all belongs to Nick’s neighbor‚ the mysterious Jay Gatsby. Across the bay in the more fashionable West Egg‚ populated by millionaires from rich families‚ lives

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    Symbolism in The Glass Menagerie The Glass Menagerie uses an extensive pattern of symbolism that describes the characters of Tom‚Amanda‚Laura and Jim.Glass‚light‚color and music constitute the substance of the dominant symbols and motifs‚serving to reveal deeper aspects of characters and underlying themes of the play.Tennessee Williams wrote the play so that each character had a special symbol which resembled their personality.But he didn’t only give the characters of the play a a resembling

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