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Glass Menagerie Written Responses Topic: Discuss how a theme is developed in the play through two characters. Provide 3 pieces of evidence to support the theme as it applies to each character. “ The Glass Menagerie ”, a memory play by Tennessee Williams, not only depicts the depressing and

you learn off of, it’s a learning experience that make people who they are and also makes them become a better individual. The book “The Glass Menagerie” by Tennessee Williams has an amazing character named Laura, you get to experience Laura shape into a more confident woman than what she starts out as in the beginning of the book. You will be introduced to her Glass Menagerie, which is a collection of slightly exotic animals, also her pride and joy. Laura is talking to Amanda “her mother” after

Tennessee Williams, an American playwright, his famous works are “The Glass Menagerie” and “A Streetcar Named Desire” Tennessee Williams creation of drama is directly related to own personal life and experience. He has a sister Rose Williams she is diagnosed with schizophrenic. In The Glass Menagerie it is talking about a memory play in the 1940s talking about Tom Wingfield in the 1930s, Tom is the narrator and the major character in the book. The other three characters are Amanda the mother, Laura

walks on the road 'a glass bottle... Coloured glass' all reminds him of Laura. Amanda - a mother who truly wishes for 'success and happiness for (her) precious children'. However she fails the recognize that her children's wishes are different from what she wishes for them. Furthermore, her extreme will

In the book The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls, we learn about the authors childhood. It goes into depth about her family relationships as well as the battles they face. With a book this complex there could be different feelings the author is intending for the reader to feel. Although there are other readings I’ve done that relate to problems in The Glass Castle. Throughout the book I have been in constant disbelief. To start off it is unbelievable the way Jeannette’s parents think. After Jeannette

The Glass Menagerie, like a curve-ball, can be thrown with many surprises. One important character is Laura, and she has many problems with her mother throughout the play. There are many standards of a fictional society within Laura. She can respond to those standards at anytime during the play. An inanimate thing in the play is her glass collection. Laura has many problems of her own that she manages to get through. She always finds a way to get through them. Some standards of fictional society

The character Amanda Wingfield in The Glass Menagerie is the victim of abandonment by her husband and her son after the play. The audience is never introduced to her husband, because he left before the play began. Amanda constantly wishes, she had chosen a wealthier husband over the attractive man who ended up leaving her. She never could live the life she dreamed of, so she forces her fantasies of a wealthy and successful lifestyle on her children. “That innocent look of your father’s had everyone

The Glass Menagerie Symbolism is a major aspect in Tennessee William's famous play, "The Glass Menagerie." On the surface, the short slice of life story seems to be simple. However, if the reader digs deeper they will find that there are several symbols that give the play a deeper meaning. Each character defines each symbol in a different way. There are some very noticeable symbols that can be analyzed when studying "The Glass Menagerie." The first is the actual glass menagerie that represents

1938. In this time period, Europe was not doing very well, and there were many conflicts and problems that led to disastrous events such as World War I. However, I am going to connect Mr. Campbell’s class to The Glass Menagerie through Laura, one of the main characters in the play. In The Glass Menagerie, Laura is seen as a peacemaker, constantly trying to fix, or save, Tom’s, the protagonist, relationship with his mother, Amanda. Amanda is a very controlling mother and wants her children to be something

haven’t broken the glass ceiling. The glass ceiling is the invisible barrier that women, as well as other minorities, face when it comes to equal pay. For every dollar earned by a man, a woman only makes about seventy-five cents. This is not in any way a fair. Women work the same job for the same amount of time as men, but they earn less. This is what sexism looks like and there are laws against it, but these laws are not being enforced or taken seriously. The laws against the glass ceiling and sexism