The Glass Menagerie Criticism Essay

Moreover, Rosemary takes advantage of the children’s personalities by asking to forgive her for her extraordinary selfishness. Although the children are provided with a voice to forgive, Rosemary’s voice overpowers their identity. In comparison, psychological analysis supports how difficult it is to identify emotional and psychological abuse. The fact that the children have undergone such a heartbreaking experience, it does not mean the experience can be easily identified or treated because of its abstract nature. The victims of emotional abuse can only tell a story; they cannot transfer an exact replica of their experience to the person that is treating them. Jeannette and her siblings too, can only tell a story of how emotional abuse took away their voice. That being said, victims of emotional abuse in reality often should require psychological therapy, but, The Glass Castle optimistically shows that the children did not require treatment because the author herself seeks treatment through writing the book

Everyone has hardships that they come across, but what really matters is the way they overcome them. In the book “Speak” by Laurie Halse Anderson, the main character Melinda Sordino does not try to face her hardships, she wants her problems to just disappear, but what makes her different is that she learns that saying nothing will just make her problems worse. The author characterized Melinda as very brave, although it took time for her to accept her problems. Melinda tries to admit what happened to her, deal with the bullies in her school, and tries to help her ex-best friend, Rachel to see with whom she is dealing with.

Our mouths stay shut when danger is poured upon us, we stay hidden to stay out of the limelight. We don’t know the damage and danger that‘s caused to ourselves until we see that our voice is no more to be heard and it’s nothing but a mere whisper. In the book, there’s many messages that go on the neglection, the bullying, and the silence of rape a victim. We meet Melinda’s parents as hard workers, but never truly at home, whereas normally there’s at least one parent home Melinda only gets notes of what’s in the fridge and when they’ll be home late or none at all. Melinda goes through neglection since middle school when her parents got promotions where her mom became store manager of a downtown store, while her father sells insurance.

   Tennessee Williams' play, The Glass Menagerie, describes three separate characters, their dreams, and the harsh realities they face in a modern world.  The Glass Menagerie exposes the lost dreams of a southern family and their desperate struggle to escape reality. Williams' use of symbols adds depth to the play. The glass menagerie itself is a symbol Williams uses to represent the broken lives of Amanda, Laura and Tom Wingfield and their inability to live in the present.

We all have to face the positives and the negatives in life, what you make of it will shape you to who you are meant to be. In the book Speak written by Laurie Halse Anderson, Melinda Sordino, the protagonist of the book, is a 14 year old girl who gets severely depressed and loses the ability to “speak” after she got sexually harassed at a party. Melinda is also an outcast in her school because of people’s misunderstanding of her, but many of her great qualities made her survive through all the pain. Melinda has a strong sense of self-awareness, as she is aware of what happened to her has changed her. Secondly, her courage has helped her stand out, and fight for herself. Lastly, her inner strength has made her strong as she slowly overcomes

The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams is a play that focuses on people’s imperfections and how being overwhelmed can effect a person’s daily life. Tom, Laura, and their father were constantly overwhelmed and acted the way they did because of it. When Williams says:

Melinda Sordino is a troubled freshmen because she has no friends and she feels the whole world is falling around her because she got a party busted because she was shocked because she was sexually assaulted. Melinda's family affected her growth mentally, physically, and emotionally. It is common for a girl, after being sexually assaulted, in result of that her growth in all three of those areas. Melinda's family life is not abusive, but she has problems communicating and connecting with them.

Through writing, Keller portrays her physical disabilities as a challenge she must overcome; Keller writes at a high academic level which proves to her audience that her external appearance does not reflect her mental ability.

The masterful use of symbolism is delightfully ubiquitous in Tennessee Williams’ “The Glass Menagerie.” He uses a collection of dim, dark and shadowy symbols that constantly remind the audience of the lost opportunity each of these three characters continually experience. This symbolism is not only use to enlighten the audience to their neglected opportunities to shine, but it is also repeatedly utilized to reinforce the ways in which the characters try in vain to cross over turbulent waters into a world of light and clarity. It is thematically a wrenching story of life gone by, and the barren attempts to realize another reality that is made more poignant by symbolic language, objects, setting, lighting and music. The characters are

If I could change the outcome of the story, I would have allowed Laura and Jim O’Connor to get married. I would have made this change because then Amanda’s problem would have been solved, and Laura would have had financial support in the future. Another reason I would have made this change is because Jim O’Connor would have been the ideal man for Laura because he connected with her. He saw past her awkward fondness of a glass animal set. He also got Laura to take pride in herself.

Laura's glass menagerie seems to be the play's central symbol. "Laura's collection of glass animal figurines represents a number of facets of her personality. Like the figurines, Laura is

The actual glass menagerie is a glass ointment collection pieced together by Laura herself. Ironically, it is also the title of the play.

However, because of Julies cognitive disability, she is not capable of coherently expressing her mental thoughts. Additionally, because she looks physically different this also causes the able-bodied to minimalize their attention of her. This idea can be emphasized with how disabled individuals are perceived to endure a life that is an on-going foil, rather an accepted form of reality (Burghurdt 557). This is because there is a general agreement in society that being disabled is determined upon the appearance, or behaviors of the individual themselves. In effect, the normative ways of recognizing the disabled person is the able-bodied societies means to creating barriers towards what contradicts their own clean and proper body. This barrier of ignorance is evidently demonstrated towards Julie, because the able-bodied recognize her as the abject, and consequently disregard the significance of she utterances or actions throughout the story. However, the story makes Julie’s vulnerability clear by focusing on her internal thoughts as she “remembers there is a bad man […] he’s the same man who punched Julies mother and drowned the cat in the toilet.” (30). Julie is personally thinking this, rather expressing it. This form of evidence that is given about Julie, demonstrated how individuals like her are trapped in their own world, and her cognitive disability keeps her from properly expressing her

Written in 1944, Tennessee Williams wrote a play during World War II when people were barely making ends meet. Centering on the Wingfield family, the story consisted of five characters: Amanda Wingfield (the mother), Laura Wingfield (the daughter), Tom Wingfield (son, narrator, Laura’s older brother), Jim Connor (Tom and Laura’s old acquaintance from high school) and Mr. Wingfield (father to Tom and Laura, and Amanda’s husband)- who abandoned the family long before the start of the play. The title, “The Glass Menagerie”, represented a collection of glass animals on display in the Wingfields’ home. At one point or another, these animals then represented each character when they couldn’t accept reality. The theme of this play were about the

Since she has a disability, Laura finds it hard to communicate with the outside world around her and secludes herself within her fantasies that center on her animal figurines and musical demos. While scolding her daughter for quitting business school, Amanda exclaims to Laura: “So what are we going to do the rest of our lives? Stay home and watch parades go by? Amuse ourselves with the glass menagerie, darling? Eternally play those worn-out phonograph records your father left as a painful reminder of him” (Williams 1637). Laura receives harsh