In plays‚ writers position the audience so that we feel sympathy for some characters and not for others. The Glass Menagerie‚ written by Tennessee Williams is about one families struggle with each other and the society. Williams uses the characterisation of Laura‚ Tom and Jim to make us feel sympathy for Laura and Tom‚ whilst we dislike Jim. In the Glass Menagerie‚ Williams positions us so that we feel sympathy for Laura. By most readers she is generally considered the main protagonist of the story
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play as irksome and uneventful as The Glass Menagerie‚ could also write something as interesting as A Streetcar Named Desire. However‚ both are written extremely well by Tennessee Williams. Despite the differences‚ there are many similarities in themes and patterns. Once each play is picked apart and analyzed‚ it is very obvious that they are both written by the same author. A major theme in both plays in the dependence on men. Throughout The Glass Menagerie‚ references are made to Tom and Laura’s
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Just as in science‚ a catalyst speeds up the rate of the chemical reaction; in literature‚ a catalyst is a person‚ idea or event that initiates and develops the conflict of the story. In "A View from the Bridge" and "The Glass Menagerie"‚ the catalysts used are introduced at different points in the plays and play different roles. In " A View from the Bridge"‚ Rodolpho‚ the catalyst‚ is introduced in the exposition‚ and plays a major role in the play. He initiates the conflict by being attracted
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The play “The Glass Menagerie” tells of a family’s perceptions‚ which are often misguided‚ 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
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The extract from The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams attempts to show the power roles between parent and child. It also shows the role of a young male in the home and a child’s struggle for identity through the repression of the mother. The writer’s message in this extract is to show how a parent and surroundings can influence a child. This extract shows Tom’s fight for his identity‚ trying to be the man he wants to be‚ while everything around him stops him from doing that. We also learn
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A brother‚ a son‚ a friend‚ Tom Wingfield the narrator and a character in the play‚ The Glass Menagerie‚ which is based on Toms memory of his many experiences living with his mum and sister during the Great Depression. As this is a recollection‚ the play has a hard time presenting the events objectively as the mind‚ most often times distort the facts of events. Tom is an aspiring poet‚ which works at a shoe warehouse to support the family to which is gets frustrated with due to the numbing routine
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Parallels of Tennessee Williams’ Life and The Glass Menagerie In the play "The Glass Menagerie" by Tennessee Williams‚ there are many similarities between the character’s lives and the lives of the author and his family. The characters include the members of the Wingfield family Tom‚ his mother Amanda‚ his sister Laura‚ and Tom and Laura’s father‚ represented by a portrait. Also included is the character Jim O’Connor‚ the gentleman caller. The character of Tom Wingfield is nearly autobiographical
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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
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The Glass Menagerie is a memory play‚ and Tom makes it clear from the beginning that we are seeing events through the lens of his memories‚ heightening emotions and drawing out significances as memories do. We are also privy‚ however‚ to memories within memories – the recollections of Amanda as she speaks of her girlhood‚ and her futile attempts to relive it. Even Jim is trapped in a cycle of memory‚ as he yearns to recapture the glory days of his high school career and becomes attached to those
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In The Glass Menagerie‚ Tennessee Williams wrote the character Amanda Wingfield based on his own experiences of life. Williams and Amanda Wingfield are both hard working parents who kept foods on the table. The difference between the two is Amanda only had one job and that’s selling articles for a living. She has very high standards and a smart woman. One sees by Amanda’s private thoughts that her fear of living in the future makes her trapped to stay in the past. In addition to the first scene of
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