What Does The Glass Symbolize

People read books for many various reasons, like being relatable or fascinating. The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls is a book that many would enjoy because it is well written and interesting story. It has many good qualities such as; constant symbols and hidden meanings throughout the story, beautifully written and composed, and the real life issues that the story takes its viewers through. The Glass Castle is a very enjoyable and insightful read that I would definitely recommend for someone to read.

In a nation united by hate, filled with propaganda and controlled by the infamous “Big Brother,” Winston needed something to hold on to something as simple as a glass paperweight. George Orwell’s novel 1984 gave Winston a tangible object that ties in and incorporates both the recollection along with the pureness of Winston’s past and the obscure place of Oceania. This glass paperweight symbolizes security and freedom throughout Winston’s life in the unpleasant place under the control of the party.

They hope Laura will eventually be able to find a husband or a job, but Laura always knows she will never be able to. Her self esteem issues play a key role in keeping her from doing either of those. Laura’s anxiety has affected her entire life without being dealt with properly. Tom’s decision to leave could potentially force Laura to find a job or husband to help her and her mother, but her anxiety and other issues would only get worse until she is unable to function anymore. Also, Laura knows Tom was never fully happy at their home, yet she could do nothing but hope beyond any reason she and her mother would survive. While Laura does face her reality to some extent, she clouds herself in the illusion that everything is fine how it is even farther than anyone in her

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.

The exposition started the moment Hugh Glass' previous story was shared to us. His village was raided and houses were set on fire. Moving forward, Hugh Glass led a team to hunt in an unknown territory in the middle of the forest. His team was suddenly attacked by Arikara Natives while he was out hunting with his son ,far away from the others. They engaged in a bloody duel with the Arikara Natives. With only a few men left, they took the chance to continue their journey on foot, rather than being on the boat, as this would make them vulnerable. While everyone was resting, Hugh Glass wandered around the forest with his gun. He spotted a grizzly bear and her cubs. This was one of the major conflicts in the movie (Man vs Animal). Hugh Glass experienced a horrendous bear attack, and he became incapable of managing his body. His team was having a difficult time moving forward with him.

She is hoping to depend on Tom, that he will change her life around for her. She is a child with to big of an ego to see that not everything will fall into the path she wants it

Thirteen stripes and fifty stars were assembled to symbolize a land of the free. Symbols tend to have immenseful impacts on the lives of those they relate to. As for Jeannette Walls and her family, prominent motifs, namely the Glass Castle, New York City and a Joshua tree implicate strong faith in her father, rising up from vast dysfunction and a rebirth for not only herself, but her siblings as well. In her highly acclaimed memoir The Glass Castle, Jeannette Walls utilizes striking symbols to hook her readers as they immerse themselves in the convoluted chaos that is the Walls family journey.

It can be said that despite literal simplicity some objects or places have a much deeper metaphorical meaning to certain individuals. For Jeannette Walls, the Glass Castle is more than just the title of her memoir. To begin, Jeannette lived most of her childhood in poverty, running from town to town in order to avoid “federal agents” who are actually just bill collectors. Even so, the family dreamed of a much brighter future in a place called the Glass Castle. Jeannette’s father, Rex Walls, planned “A great big house he was going to build for us in the desert. It would have a glass ceiling and thick glass walls and even a glass staircase...solar cells on the top that would catch the sun's rays...even have its own water-purification system”

The glass menagerie symbolizes Amanda Wingfield's overwhelming need to cling to her past and her fulfilled fear of being alone.  Amanda resents the poverty-stricken neighborhood in which she lives so

In the beginning of the play, Laura sees herself as “crippled” and not “expecting any gentlemen callers,” for she is extremely shy and unconfident. Furthermore, she embodies her collection of glass menagerie, for when Tom hurls his coat across the room “It strikes against the shelf of Laura’s glass collection... [and] Laura cries out as if wounded.” Laura’s action in this scene symbolizes her frailness and how she is a piece of the glass menagerie. Being part of the glass collection, Laura is confined to the shelf which the collection is on. This metaphorical representation of Laura depicts how she prefers to stay inside rather than going out into the world and becoming truly independent. Nonetheless, when Jim, the ticket to break out of this confinement, arrives, there is a shift in Laura’s character. As Jim talks to Laura, her “shyness is dissolving in his warmth.” Moreover, the unicorn piece which is symbolic of Laura and was once addressed as “lonesome” loses its horn in an accident. When its horn is gone, Laura states, “The horn was removed to make him feel less - freakish! Now he will feel more at home with the other horses, the ones who don’t have horns.” (Scene 7:6-9) Laura has lost her metaphorical horn and therefore she fits in with the rest of the world. For once in her life, Laura feels normal and her shell is broken as she dances and engages with Jim. However, Laura’s escape is not complete liberation, for even though Laura has liking towards Jim, the so thought gentleman-caller, Jim is engaged and has a fiance. This shows that Laura and her family will not truly escape from their setbacks even if a glance of hope, such as Jim, arrives for a moment in their lives. Therefore, at the end of the play, Laura’s “silliness is gone and she has dignity and tragic beauty” for “glass breaks so easily. No matter how careful you

In the play, The Glass Menagerie, by Tennessee Williams, Williams uses many symbols which represent many different things.?Many of the symbols used in the play try to symbolize some form of escape or difference between reality and illusion.?The first symbol, presented in the first scene, is the fire escape.?This represents the "bridge" between the illusory world of the Wingfields and the world of reality.?This "bridge" seems to be a one way excursion.?But the direction varies for each character.?For Tom, the fire escape is the way out of the world of Amanda and Laura and an entrance into a world of new dimensions.?For Laura, the fire escape is a way into her own world. A way to escape from reality.?Amanda perceives the fire escape as a way

The Glass Menagerie symbolizes Laura. Tom really cares about his sister Laura. He is motivated by anger. Tom goes out to drink and watch movies just to get

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

Laura Wingfield has chosen to hide from reality in the play The Glass Menagerie. She seems to live in a world of her own, and hides from everything and everyone outside of the apartment. Laura is terrified of anything new or different. Her mother sent her to business college, but Laura was so afraid that ‘The first time [they] gave a speed-test, she broke down completely – was sick at the stomach and almost had to be carried into the wash –room.’ (p 243). Laura uses her limp as an excuse to hide from the world. She believes that her slight limp makes her crippled and that she cannot be a part of the real world because of it. Laura’s glass menagerie and the victrola act as things which protect her from the real world in the play. Whenever she is

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