The Glass Menagerie Reality

   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.

Moving on, The Glass Menagerie is a memory play narrated by the character Tom Wingfield who recounts one of his biggest regrets. The play focuses on the climatic decision between his commitment to his family versus his personal desires. Tom remembers that he longed to be free, but has stayed in the family because he

This novel illustrates multiple characters with unique personalities. One of them is Tom Wingfield, which is the son of Amanda and lives in a materialistic society. His mother depends on him to support the family. However, Tom does not want the responsibility to care for the house and his family and chooses to leave instead. In addition, the fire escape is an important object in the play. Tom is a character that uniquely reacts to the society in The Glass Menagerie. He shows how a person can act when in a tough situation.

The Glass Menagerie is a memory play narrated by the main character and son, Tom Wingfield. It takes place in their apartment in St Louis, 1937. The father left them years ago leaving Tom to support the family. He works in a shoe warehouse, a job in which he hates and wants to leave, but can't because he has a duty to support the family. His mother, Amanda is loving and caring but nags too much, annoying Tom. She expresses the desire for her daughter, Laura, who is crippling shy, to have "gentlemen callers". Amanda finds out that Laura dropped out of college because of her shyness and she demanded Tom to choose a gentleman caller for her. He chooses Jim O'Connor, a boy who she liked in high school, but was too shy to talk to him before. Tom invites him for dinner and Jim talks to her and gets her to open up a little. He leads her on by kissing her then after tells her he is engaged. He then leaves and Laura gets sad. Amanda yells at Tom, blaming him for it. Tom reveals to the audience that he abandons his family later that night and has been haunted by Laura ever since.

Comparisons and contrasts in The Glass Menagerie In searching at each the movie and the e-book of The Glass Menagerie, it's miles clear that there may be a larger range of similarities between that two works than there are contrasts. Likewise, it is clear that every work had its first-rate and shortcomings in connection to the subsequent portrayal of The Glass Menagerie. within the play and movie, The Glass Menagerie, through Tennessee Williams, it's miles obvious that the 2 portrayals of the work had massive likenesses and contrasts that influence unique mind-units for the organization of onlookers, for example, additives of the play and the movement picture, non-verbal communique, light and song within the movement photo, pictures, and settings of the play and movement image.

The Glass Menagerie, by Tennessee Williams, is a play narrated by Tom Wingfield, one of the three main characters in the play. The story is based on Tom’s memories of his past life while living with his mother Amanda and sister, Laura, during 1937 in St. Louis. These memories are skewed because of his inability to escape from his feelings of entrapment and the abandonment from his sister. The title suggest that the characters are a hodgepodge of fragile, sensitive, opposite people striving to survive life in the unrealistic fantasy world they each have created for themselves during the great depression. This paper will argue the symbolism between the characters themselves and Laura’s actual glass menagerie. The characters in the play are symbolic of a glass menagerie in the following ways: the characters exist in an unrealistic fantasy world, they glimmer in certain lights but not in others, and they are extremely fragile.

Amanda, Laura and Tom Wingfield use different methods of escaping their reality. Throughout the play there are different symbols which represent escape. Each on of them has different ways but for all them the reason is they are unhappy with their life’s circumstances. There are many ways in which to escape reality today. Movies, dancing, video games and books to name a few. Many people use this in order to escape from everyday problems. In “The Glass Menagerie” the Wingfield family uses fantasy to escape from their unsatisfied lives.

The glass unicorn represents Laura in the sense that unicorns are unusual. Unicorns are out of the ordinary from other horses but also seemed as lonely because they appear different. This represents Laura very well because she doesn't live in the world the way other girls do at this time. Laura's collection of the glass menagerie represents their family because glass is fragile and sensitive. Their relationships are all fragile and being shown in the story, Tom and his mom have a rocky relationship.

She is substituting her glass figures for the real friends she doesn’t have. Laura copes with her real life social problems by thinking her relationships with her pieces of glass are real. Laura also says, “This one is the oldest. It’s nearly thirteen. Oh be careful if you breathe, it breaks” (1197).

***The characters within The Glass Menagerie are almost all a part of the same family creating a family dynamic that effects the way the characters are developed. A majority of Amanda's part within the play of The Glass Menagerie consists of her providing a recollection of her past and enforcing her perceptions of those experiences onto her children. Most of her speech within the play is monologues of her reflecting upon her past. The Glass Menagerie is considered to be a memory play making a connection to Amanda's constant reflection on her past to the fact that this is a memory play one can observe that Amanda is the personification of the memory within the memory play. Amanda's constant recollection of the past effects the character development of Laura, tom, and of course herself.

Despite being a 'memory play', the basis and content of The Glass Menagerie is truth and reality as Williams' attempts to 'find a closer approach, a more penetrating and vivid expression of things as they are'. This basis of reality is evident in the play's setting, as The Glass Menagerie is presented with great fidelity to the social and historical realities of the time. This is demonstrated from the play's beginning as Tom 'reverses time to that quaint period, the thirties', and juxtaposes the turmoil in Spain to the uneasy peace in America, in an allusion to the forthcoming war (World War II). There are other allusions to the war throughout the play, such as in Tom's closing speech as he claims the 'world is lit by lightning'. It is clear that the historical realities of the time are effectively conveyed in the play, although it is not only the war-related realities of the time that Williams highlights.

A Glass Menagerie is a collection of small, wild animals which can be put out for display for public view. Tennessee Williams's play “The Glass Menagerie”, is about a family with personalities so different that they do not get along. The family could be considered wild animals all in their own way. In the story, Laura’s menagerie breaks multiple times at the slightest touch. The title of the play “The Glass Menagerie is represented by the entire family because, like the menagerie, each family member displays fragile characteristics.

Amanda, the mother of both children, was raised in an upper class family. She often tells stories about her life and the many gentlemen callers she received. Throughout Tom’s memory, the character’s frustrations lead to heated arguments, which then leads to a tragic ending. Therefore, a central idea in “The Glass Menagerie” focuses on the impossibility of true escape and the frustrations each character experiences. I enjoyed the characters in the play for their

She slowly starts opening up to Jim more, by mentioning how she went to all the performances he was in. Laura tells Jim about her glass collection, which she never lets anyone touch. “Oh be careful-if you breathe, it breaks (Williams 1204)! Laura is just as fragile as the glass figurines. Laura doesn’t want to pick favorites, but the unicorn one is her favorite and her oldest one.

“The Glass Menagerie” is an autobiographical play, written by Tennessee William in 1945. Each character is a prototype of a real person, who played a significant role in the author’s life. It is a memory play, which based on author’s own life story and a point of view at the family problems and ways to solve them. The main problem in the play is the conflict between parents and children, which leads to adverse consequences for all members of the family.