The Glass Menagerie Research Paper

In The Glass Menagerie, by Tennessee Williams, and A Doll House, by Henrik Ibsen, each protagonist faces the difficulty of society’s rule. Tom, being the “man of the house”, provides for his family and is depended upon. Were as Nora is co-dependant of her puppet master of husband Torvald. Despite their differences, Tom and Nora parallel the flaws in their common daily lives.

The author, Daniel C. Weaver depicts the story “Beyond the Glass” in a skillful way to engage the audience. Weaver does a good job of showing the struggle of the pathologist to make the audience ponder upon the identification of the disease. Although the story, “Beyond the Glass” contains a great deal of medical terms, however, Weaver maintains the story appropriate for a general audience by using descriptive details and suspense.

Realism is “An attempt to reproduce faithfully the surface appearance of life, especially that of ordinary people in everyday situations” (Kennedy 2081). Realism is shown throughout the two following plays. The Glass Menagerie is a play written by Tennessee Williams, and it was published in the year of 1945. The play being compared is A Doll’s House, written by Henrik Ibsen it was published in the year of 1879. In A Glass Menagerie realism is shown through the fact that Tom’s family is struggling with money. Tom can be seen as the protagonist of the story. Similarly, in A Doll’s House Nora’s family was struggling with money up until this year. Nora can be seen as the protagonist in this story. In A Doll’s House the claims given about

The next section I read was pages two hundred and twenty-six to pages two hundred and eighty-eight. It was about the New York Experience throughout the family. The characters in this section are the Walls, Eric and John. Jeannette arrives in New York and she gets a job in a hamburger shop, then Lori and Jean get enough money to rent their own apartment. Jean begins her school in New York and starts writing for The Phoenix. They hear that Rex is in jail and he is just getting worse and Brian moves to the city. Then Jean begins college at Bernard and Maureen also moves to New York. Jean hears on the radio about a van breaking down and everything in it falling out including the dog. She then hears from

The Glass Castle; a memoir by Jeannette Walls is a heart wrenching story of a family that learned what loyalty is and is not. The family is dysfunctional and unique. It was eye-opening to read about this family moved from place to place not knowing where they would end up, what they would eat or what they would wear. Reading about how the Walls kids dealt with mental illness and alcoholism was indeed eye opening.

   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.

1. Mr Wonka and the infinite possibilities In Chapter 25, the Great Glass Lift serves as a purpose of transportation from the Nut Room to the Television-Chocolate room and reveals the existence of the countless number of rooms in Wonka’s factory. “Quickly, Charlie started reading some of the labels alongside the buttons. THE ROCK-CANDY MINE — 10,000 FEET DEEP, it said on one.

“Dad's hands trembled slightly as he unrolled different blueprints. He had drawn frontal views, side views, and aerial views of the Glass Castle. He had diagrammed the wiring and the plumbing. He had drawn the interiors of rooms and labeled them and specified their dimensions, down to the inches, in his precise, blocky handwriting. I stared at the plans. "Dad," I said. "you'll never build the Glass Castle." "Are you saying you don't have faith in your old man?" "Even if you do, I'll be gone. In less than three months, I'm leaving for New York City." "What I was thinking was you don't have to go right away," Dad said. I could stay and graduate from Welch High and go to Bluefield State, as Miss Katona had suggested, then get a job at The Welch Daily News.

An escape typically liberates a person from their suffering. However, in the Glass Menagerie, written by Tennessee Williams, escape is an ironical dream. Instead of being free, the characters are tied down to emotional and physical chains that hamper their desires. This impediment is depicted through details in which each character’s journey consists of trials and tribulation and the attempts to escape from the them.

In the play, The Glass Managerie by Tennessee Williams, realism is brought into the play to depict people with ordinary lives facing real world problems. The mother, Amanda, is a magazine seller during the Great Depression with two kids and no husband, she always reminisces of her glory days when they are long gone and trying to relive them through Laura. She is one of the characters faced with real life situations. The use of spectacles throughout the play enhance the audiences' perspective by adding special effects, changing costumes, and a change of scenery. The Glass Managerie includes many spectacles one of them being the projection board that would display certain words or images that are in the play.

Using music helps the audience distinguish relationships between characters. Blanche hears the Varsouviana Polka whenever she thinks of Alan, and the only thing that can stop her music is the gunshot that ended Alan’s life. Since the music she hears is in her head, no one else can hear the gunshot. The last time Blanche can hear the music the gunshot can be heard, yet the music does not stop. This has started her mental break because in her mind everything is going fine, yet in the world the characters start understanding who Blanche is and how she does not

City of Glass is a novel written by Paul Auster in 1985, and its one of the stories included in the series of novels The New York Trilogy (1987). One of the essential themes that recur in many of Austers works is the search for identity and personal meaning, and this is exactly one of the main elements of City of Glass. It deals with this detective writer, who descends into madness when he becomes a private investigator himself by mistake. In the following essay, I will focus on the characters and the very twisted point of view, which is a big part of the whole novel. Besides that, I will concentrate on the themes that are dealt with in the story.

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.

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

    The Glass Menagerie, by Tennessee Williams, contains multiple themes.  While there are many themes, the theme that holds the piece together is illusion versus reality.