Laura Allen

At the same time, it seems impossible to deny Menagerie was in some way based on Williams’s life; he drew from his experiences in St. Louis crafting Amanda after his mother Edwina and Laura after his sister Rose. The use of his family members for models of this early work is undeniable. However, the over-emphasis of Williams’s use of autobiography helps situate Menagerie as naturalistic because Williams was drawing from real memories

that I have is, what motivates the twins’ mother to contact Wren and Cath? I believe that one reason the twins’ mother, Laura, may have had for contacting the twins is that there is little responsibility with them now. One reason that Laura had for abandoning them was that having kids was too much of a responsibility for her. With the girls in college and living independently, Laura is not accountable to

Laura’s glass menagerie represents her own emotional spirit. Laura had a minor physical impairment. Because of her physical appearance, she had a fragile and delicate inner appearance as well, like her glass pieces. Appearing weak to herself, outsiders were not able to see her true inner self and who she really was as an individual. The glass menagerie is a good comparative to Laura’s feelings about herself and how those around her also feel. One piece in particular that was a suggestive subject

the classroom. Over by the oak tree, four-year-old Allen and his teacher, Helen, were staring at each other. “Allen, get off the slide. It’s time to come inside now,” I said to him. Allen ignored me and ran around the other side of the slide. Then I emphasized what I said to him one more time: “Play time is over, Allen. You must come inside the class now.” No response. I was so mad that I increased my voice to him. “Allen! Get down now!” Allen tightly grabbed the side of the climber structure without

their first pitch to lease land to the Allen family who have two young children. Thomason, a mother of a teenage boy herself, utilizes fear to deceive Mrs. Allen (from whom they are trying to lease land) that the only way Mrs. Allen’s young son will have a bright future is if they allow Global to come into their town and lease their land for drilling. While trying to convince the family that leasing their land is the right decision Thomason says to Mrs. Allen, “Even before the drilling, the

We can’t allow life to beat us down. Everything happens for a reason, and it builds character in us, and it tells us what we are about and how strong we really are when we didn't think we could be that strong.” In the nonfiction book Unbroken, by Laura Hillenbrand, the determined Louis Zamperini showed that life could not beat him down, and never gave up, not even in the light of the impossible. Louie’s strong minded determination continues to be a factor in his survival until the very end.

featured inflexible expectations of a wife and her views on marriage. Grant Allen, a Victorian essayist, in “Plain Words on the Women Question” in 1889, wrote, “We ought frankly to recognize that most women must be wives and mothers: that most women should therefore be trained, physically, morally, socially, and mentally, in the way best fitting for them to be wives and mothers” (Broadview Anthology 628). Essentially, Allen holds the belief that all women are meant to serve as an asset to men, to complement

Hitchcock’s Rear Window (1954) builds a distinct view of the world and how, in the director’s opinion, men and women fit in it. Through dialogue and mise-en-scene, Hitchcock’s always seems to be making a statement about how men and women should be viewed in his films. Rear Window pinpoints some recurring elements about men and women present in multiple Hitchcock films, where men are shown as damaged and needing help, while women are shown as care-givers. Men are always reluctant to take action, until

Over the next decade Mr. Stanford, directly assisted by James M. Davis, Stanford International Bank’s CFO, and Leroy King, Antigua’s chief banking supervisor, executed a massive Ponzi scheme. In addition, Laura Pendergest-Holt, the chief investment officer of Stanford Financial Group (“SFG”) and a member of SIB’s investment committee, gave credence to the fraudulent scheme by misrepresenting herself to investors and to the firm’s financial advisers claiming that she oversaw SIB’s entire investment

to survive against nature. This is significant because it sets up the main point of the plot for the entire book. “‘Pick up the pretty pebbles, Laura’ Ma said. ‘And another time, don’t be so greedy’” (Wilder 174). The speaker is Ma, and its context is when Laura socket ripped out of her dress because she collected too many stones. This shows how Laura is still struggling with immaturity at times,