Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association http://apa.sagepub.com Tennessee Williams: The Uses of Declarative Memory in the Glass Menagerie Daniel Jacobs J Am Psychoanal Assoc 2001; 50; 1259 DOI: 10.1177/00030651020500040901 The online version of this article can be found at: http://apa.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/50/4/1259 Published by: http://www.sagepublications.com On behalf of: American Psychoanalytic Association Additional services and information for Journal of
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“The Glass Menagerie” and the Typical American Family Even though The Glass Menagerie was based in the 1930’s‚ it is apparent that the family architecture and interactions could clearly represent today’s all American family. This play brings about the notion of abandonment‚ originally stemming from the father leaving his family and then Tom following in his footsteps. As with any family other issues derive from the fact that children mirror their parents and the mere fact that we cannot chose
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produced great pieces of literature such as Eugene O’Neill’s Long Day’s Journey Into Night and Tennessee Williams’s The Glass Menagerie. These plays have one central issue and that is family conflict. In O’Neill’s Long Day’s Journey Into Night the main crisis in the family is Mary’s morphine addiction and the Tyrone family’s denial of that addiction while Williams’s The Glass Menagerie focuses on Amanda Wingfield’s unwillingness to let go of the past. Each play focuses on a different crisis that
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The Glass Castle written by Jeannette Walls is a remarkable true story of a family and the problems they face because of poverty. This two hundred and eighty eight page book is a truly inspiring and astonishing memoir. This book was published in 2005 and has spent more than three years on the New York Times bestseller list. This book would be great for high school students for many reasons. For one high school students aren’t exposed to memoirs very often. Secondly‚ it’s a more modern piece
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The Glass Menagerie Drama Reaction Paper ENG 125 September 19‚ 2012 Heather Carlopio The Glass Menagerie In this week’s Drama literary composition The Glass Menagerie the author Tennessee Williams tells the story of a poor family of three living in a small apartment. The story takes place in the early 1900s and most of the scenes take place in their apartment. The drama was set from the beginning of the story when the author first determines that Laura has a disability‚ and she is unsure
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The Glass Castle The Glass Castle‚ written by Jeannette Walls‚ is an autobiographical novel that shows how hard life can be when you have little to no money and highly deteriorated parents. During the whole memoir it shows how hard it is to live in poverty while at the same time trying to raise a family. The exposition of the novel is how having parents that cannot support their children because the lack of a stable income. The rising action is when Jeannette was in a taxi cab going to a party
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of many books‚ one of which being her memoir The Glass Castle. After years keeping her story a secret‚ in 2005 Jeannette’s husband inspired her to write her sad story for the world to see. Through the 288 pages‚ Jeanette illustrates her story of a life as nomads constantly on the move‚ with a passive mother and a drunken father. The stories she shares show the side of an abusive childhood that we rarely have the opportunity to understand. The glass castle is shattered in the reader’s face‚ and its
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"The Glass Menagerie" by Tennessee Williams is widely regarded as one of the finest plays in all of American literature. The story is about a small family living in St. Louis‚ Missouri‚ and it takes place during the late 1930’s Great Depression. Throughout the play‚ 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
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The Sky Isn’t the Limit Anymore The Looking Glass Wars by: Frank Beddor A caterpillar that smokes from pipes and eats tarty-tarts is only the beginning of Frank Beddor’s first book in his trilogy The Looking Glass Wars. Many of us are familiar with the infamous fairy tale of Alice who stumbles upon a hole that leads her to Wonderland and meets strange characters like the Cheshire Cat and others. Now there are many differences in Beddor’s tale; not only is the Cat an assassin with nine lives but
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In the memoir‚ The Glass Castle‚ Jeanette Walls‚ the author‚ was most influenced by her time in Phoenix‚ as indicated by how she describes the neighborhood‚ house‚ and experiences there. She had a stable household for quite a while. Although Jeanette and the family faced their struggles‚ the experience of living there made the kids extremely happy. They all had their own bikes‚ and they went to a nice school with excellent education. Their father had a stable job‚ and even though he hated how organized
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