The Glass Menagerie By Tennessee Williams

| Tom wants his old life back prior to the accident and he sees the accident as the end of his life as he knew it. He loses his sense of identity and sense of family in particular.Feels guilty and ashamed about the irrevocable consequences his brother’s irresponsibility had for other people and their familiesRetreats into a depressed state which feels empty and black.

Brendan attempts to drag Tom out of his depression state by encouraging him to go running in the mornings together. “Its good for the mind too, being up early, getting a bit of exercise,” Brendan motivates Tom.This helps him get back on track to his new life. It is through Brendan that helps Tom get back to his original health both mentally and physically, and to overcome the challenges in his path. Brendan sees that Tom needed someone there to push him harder to get back his fitness for rugby but also he needed someone to talk to about Daniel. Brendan was the main reason that Tom built his confidence back up and got back into the norm of playing

Remy- is in love with Morgan and loves to drive. Her mom just bought her a car so now she’s the first one to turn 16 and get a car. Her mom is 40 and just had a baby. She can’t stand her little brother Mac. She only messed up on time while driving.

Harrison, he is the author. His dad who is kinda a angry and violent man. His mom who is quiet and unassuming. He has a brother named bird, who is the course of the book comes out that he is a half brother. His wife is stunningly beautiful.

Tennessee Williams, born Thomas Lanier Williams, wrote The Glass Menagerie, a play which premiered in Chicago in 1944. This award winning play, autobiographical in nature, represented a time in which Williams felt the obligation of his responsibilities in regards to the care of his family. Robert DiYanni, Adjunct Professor of Humanities at New York University, rated it as, “One of his best-loved plays...a portrayal of loneliness among characters who confuse fantasy and reality” (DiYanni 1156). Alternatively, The Glass Menagerie, a play set in the era of the Great Depression and written from the narrator’s memory, was meant to teach us the how our relationships with one another can alter our futures, for better or worse. Everything about this particular play was a direct and clear symbolization of Williams ' life growing up. Williams uses characterization to depict several people from his real life in this play; his sister, himself, his overbearing mother, absent father, and a childhood best friend. Williams does a splendid job transforming his personal life into a working piece of art. In Tennessee Williams ' play, The Glass Menagerie, his character, Laura, is central to the structure and focus of the story due to her individual ties to all of the supporting characters throughout the seven scene play.

Alice’s only son Tom is a minor character in the book. He is present during family gatherings and important moments e.g. when Alice discloses that she has Alzheimer’s disease (p. 103). He deals with his mom‘s diagnosis by being distant.

4. George Wilson is a small, handsome man who is described as gray and poor. He loves his wife, but is slight in the presence of Tom.

Tom is unable to forget what his father has done and his memory of the details of the photograph and the postcard highlights his feelings of displeasure towards his father. As the play develops, we see Mr. Wingfield being a contributing factor to Tom’s departure from the Wingfield household. In fact, Tom cites his father as both an example and excuse for his departure. In scene 6, Tom explains to Jim “I’m like my father. The bastard son of a bastard!”

Tom Wingfield and Ethan Frome are both intellectual dreamers who live in stifling, hopeless conditions. Ethan gave up his dreams of becoming an engineer due to his duty to care for his ailing parents, and later Zeena. Similarly, Tom writes poetry, reads literature, follows European politics, and dreams of escaping from his current circumstances. Just as Ethan never fulfills his dream of becoming an engineer, Tom is trapped in his job at a warehouse to support his family. Both of these characters desire a life that is more exciting and fulfilling than the one they currently have. The difference between Tom and Ethan is that while Ethan stays with Zeena in Starkfiled, Tom leaves his family in St. Louis. Ethan is a highly passive character, relying

The members of the family are selfish; everyone is abandoning everyone and everything to chase their own aims and dreams. The character of Tom and Laura portray the story of Tennessee Williams’ life. Like Tom, Tennessee was a shoe clerk that love to write but was held back by his relatives. All the events in the story are based on the life of Williams and his friends. This is like his autobiography with a twist. “All work is autobiographical if it’s serious. Everything a writer produces is his inner history, transposed into another time. I am more personal in my writing than other people, and it may have gone against me.” (Spoto 114) Tennessee was a man that wanted the reader to see what his life really looked like in the time of the Great Depression: how people lived, and how they escaped reality. This tale is a lesson to show the reader that every negative side can have a positive

Tom is Rachel’s ex-husband, who initially appears to be an upright man. However, he is later revealed as manipulative and a liar. Anna is Tom’s new wife, who feels accomplished for stealing Tom from Rachel. She sees Rachel as a threat to her life, but in the end, she decides to help Rachel kill Tom because he lied to her and she wants to protect Evie. Scott is Megan’s husband, who first appears to be a reasonable person. However, he is later disclosed as being abusive, both physically and emotionally, especially when he gets frustrated. Megan Hipwell is the victim of the murder, whose past is pitiful and it causes her to feel conflicted about her marriage with Tom. She constantly looks for having affairs with other

In the play “The Glass Menagerie” of Tennessee William, he wrote a drama play to emphasize readers about the life is at a standstill the Wingfield family. Through of the Wingfield family, he uses many symbols which represent many things, but the important main symbolization is fire escape that shows three main characters; Tom Wingfield, his fire escape is the way out of Amanda and Laura. Amanda Wingfield, hope gentlemen callers to enter their lives, and Laura Wingfield, who wants in her own world by collecting unicorn animals. They express successfully in the play by using the fire escape portrays each of characters as literal exist from their own reality.

The loss of her husband causes Amanda to develop a dependence on her children. She wants Tom and Laura to become successful. Amanda complains that Tom does not earn enough money at the shoe factory. She wants him to attend night school so he can attain a better career.

Along with the character transformation in “A Doll’s House”, Tom, from “The Glass Menagerie”, also goes through some character changes. Throughout the entire play, Tom was working in a warehouse trying to support his family. While working there, he was struggling with his dreams of becoming a merchant marine. Towards the end of the play, when Tom introduces his friend Jim O’Connor to his sister Laura, his mother hopes that this could be a man that Laura could settle down with and someday marry. When Amanda finds out that Jim is already engaged, she blames Tom. She is furious that Tom brought a gentleman caller over

Tom, a son of Amanda, a poet, with no backbone gets a job in a warehouse and does not have any plan for his career. He is trapped by his mother and has suffered from that. However, Tom is curious about how he