The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams revolves around the flaws of each of the Wingfields: Amanda Wingfield, a woman of a very confusing nature; Laura Wingfield, one who is partially crippled and lets that make her extremely self conscious; and Tom Wingfield, one who is seen as selfish, and feels trapped and is looking for a way out. Williams" characters are all lost in a dreamy state of illusion or escape wishing for something that they don't have. ... Laura Wingfield is a romantic, who has a physical defect which causes her to limp slightly. ... In his final speech he pretends to...

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In this paper I would like to compare the lives of two fairly young adults, Tom and Laura Wingfield. ... Their Mother, Amanda Wingfield, loved her children dearly. ... She wants Laura, not herself to be taken care of. ... Tom was a likable character until we find out he didn't pay the electric bill with the intended money. ... This can be seen when Amanda sends Laura to go to the store: Laura trips on the fire escape. ...

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All of the character problems were formed from deep psychological issues. ... The first character in the play is Tom Wingfield, he seems to be in his late 20's, and he works in a factory but aspires to be a poet/writer. ... The next character in the play is the mother, Amanda Wingfield she is extremely overwhelming and pushy, as you know, to her son. ... Then comes lovely Laura Wingfield the innocent hurt child even though she is grown. ... The overall theme I got from this play is that Tennessee Williams gives us four characters whose lives consist more of avoiding their reality than...

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As a lower class family, the characters are placed in the slums of St. ... The protagonist, Tom Wingfield, is the narrator and Williams" surrogate. ... Jim offers the Wingfields hope for the future: Tom: He is the most realistic character in the play, being an emissary from a world of reality that we were somehow set apart from. But since I have a poet's weakness for symbols, I am using this character also as a symbol; he is the long- delayed but always expected something that we live for (23). ... Wingfield; Laura often plays records to avoid the present and thinks pleasantly about t...

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Psychiatrist report on Amanda Wingfield Amanda Wingfield has gone under psychiatric observation. ... Amanda's personality reflects a domineering character. ... Her daughter, Laura seems to be the shy type but Laura herself knows when one does not have a chance at something. ... She faces her fear of not having a son to provide food for Laura as well as herself. ... Mentally Amanda Wingfield seems capable to hold on to and perform daily activities. ...

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Amanda Wingfield is the mother of Tom and Laura. ... Tom Wingfield is the son of Amanda and the brother of Laura. ... Laura Wingfield is the daughter of Amanda and the sister of Tom. She is by far the most sensitive member of the Wingfield clan. ... Each character has his own way of escaping reality. ...

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Which characters faces life more realistically? ... The ones which face life in a more realistic way are Tom Wingfield and Jim O"Connor. ... Wingfield, Amanda's husband. ... Wingfield leave home. ... Like this little glass piece, Laura is fragile and delicate in character. ...

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In the play, Williams describes the three members on the Wingfield family, their dreams, and the harsh realities they face in the society of the 1930s. ... Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie takes place in the Wingfield family apartment, in 1937. ... Like her figurines, Laura is fragile and delicate. ... Each of the main characters is struggling with the hopelessness that threatens their lives. ... In all aspects of the play, the three main characters struggle with an internal desire to escape their inadequate lives. ...

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Mosaics, Glass Shells, and the Power of Introversion Both Laura, a fictional character in the play, The Glass Menagerie, and Temple Grandin, the author of "Genius May Be an Abnormality: Educating Students with Asperger's Syndrome", can be categorized as introverts: Grandin, labeled with autism, and Laura, with "inferiority complex", as Jim calls it. ... To empathize with these characters, one must fully comprehend the meaning of extroversion and introversion. ... Western Society has always favored extroverts over introverts, favored the man of action and character o...

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Laura is quiet and timid. ... Characters in 19th-Century Literature. ... "The Pleasant Disguise of Illusion: A View of the Characters." ... "The Pleasant Disguise of Illusion: A View of the Characters." ... Characters in 19th-Century Literature. ...

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Amanda Wingfield, the energetic and manipulative southern belle, is also a dramatic portrait of Williams' own mother, Edwina. ... The bulk of the action takes place in the 1930s, in the Wingfield small apartment in the lower middle class section of the city of St. ... All the members of Wingfield family are unsuccessful in accepting the realities of the world in which they live. ... Other characters (Laura and Tom) fear that through relation to others they will be reduced to more reflections, trapped in the mirror of the other's judgment. ... Wingfield in an actual fact "Tom's ...

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After his father abandoned his family, Tom Wingfield is left to support his overbearing mother, Amanda, and his painfully shy sister, Laura. ... The fantasy Amanda lives in gives us a greater insight into how delusion revolves around the Wingfield family and how it is a central concern in the play and contributes highly to Tom's decision to leave. ... Wingfield, so she moved to another subject. ... Overall, we see each one of the main characters live alternately between a delusional and a world of reality. ... The characters fabricate things, stories with which to fill their lives. ...

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Another likeness is the short temper that these two characters posses. Both characters seem to lose their tempers very easily. ... The difference in character lies in the motives behind each Tom's departure. ... Although he cares for his sister Laura, he realizes that she will never marry or be able to take care of herself. ... The similarities of these characters set up an interesting character foil. ...

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It is about a mother, Amanda Wingfield, a daughter, Laura Wingfield, and a son, Tom Wingfield. There are five characters in this play. The other character is a friend of Tom's, Jim O"Connor. ... Jim went to high school with Tom and Laura. ... He is brought to the Wingfield home as a gentlemen caller, and when Top brings him home, he is unaware that he is going to be married. ...

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The Glass Menagerie In The Glass Menagerie, by Tennessee Williams, Tom and Laura Wingfield share a special sibling bond. ... In Tennessee William's play, The Glass Menagerie, the characters of Tom, Amanda, and Laura are all like the "Glass Menagerie" in one way or another. ... Laura Wingfield, a shy and emotionally crippled young girl, is the most like the glass menagerie that she adores. Of all the Wingfields, Laura is the most vulnerable because she lacks the strength of Amanda and the ability to escape like Tom. ... The character of Laura is like a fragile p...

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Louis in 1937. " The Glass Menagerie" is a memory play drawn from the narrator, Tom Wingfield played by Michael A. ... Tom Wingfield who is also a character in this play is an aspiring poet who works in a shoe warehouse to support his mother Amanda played by Darrie Lawrence, and his sister Laura played by Christi Craig. ... There is also a fifth character Mr. ... Next, Tom's character was my favorite. ... Laura's character is quite different from her brothers. ...

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In The "Glass Menagerie", the main characters are Laura, Amanda, Tom, and Jim. Each character can be found with symbols that best represent them. ... Tom Wingfield loves to go to the movies. ... The character Jim is a symbol itself. He enters the lives of the Wingfield. ...

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The Wingfield family, who lived in an apartment building, consisted of Amanda, Laura, and Tom Wingfield. ... As each character attempt to escape reality, we will examine the symbols, which gave each character an opportunity for escape. We will first look at Amanda Wingfield. ... Wingfield, a telephone man, and left the plantation life for city life. ... Laura Wingfield, the oldest of Amanda's children and whom the play is centered around, is extremely shy and fragile. ...

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The Wingfield family, aren't quite living on the streets but they are poor enough. Amanda Wingfield is portrayed as a very pushy mother who always tries to urge on and persuade her two children to do exactly what she says. ... The character most longing for succession - the American Dream. ... Each character has their own reasons for wanting to succeed: Starting with Tom, it is clear right from the beginning parts of the play his main ambition in life is to succeed within himself. ... Tom leaves the Wingfield family, although succeeding in some way of the escapism from Amanda, Laura k...

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The lifestyle of the Wingfield family has decreased due to the economy and other hardships. The Wingfield family was deserted by the father and left to fend for themselves. ... All of the Wingfields have their own problems; the mother, Amanda lives in her past, Laura, her daughter, lives in her glass menagerie, and Tom, her son, lives in a dream of escape. ... Laura Wingfield portrays a dependent female; whose crippled leg foreshadows the crippling of her emotions and her ability to communicate with people other than Tom and Amanda. ... Tom Wingfield is the main character and narrator in t...

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The lifestyle of the Wingfield family has decreased due to the economy and other hardships. The Wingfield family was deserted by the father and left to fend for themselves. ... All of the Wingfields have their own problems; the mother, Amanda lives in her past, Laura, her daughter, lives in her glass menagerie, and Tom, her son, lives in a dream of escape. ... Laura Wingfield portrays a dependent female; whose crippled leg foreshadows the crippling of her emotions and her ability to communicate with people other than Tom and Amanda. ... Tom Wingfield is the main character and narrator in t...

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In The Glass Menagerie Tennessee Williams writes of a 1940s household which consists of Laura, Amanda, and Tom Wingfield who display gender roles that underlie suspicions of dependence, manipulation, and subservience. ... Laura Wingfield portrays a dependent female; whose crippled leg foreshadows the crippling of her emotions and her ability to communicate with people other than Tom and Amanda. ... (Williams 73) Amanda Wingfield depicts the stereotypical Antebellum Southern female who acts manipulatively toward and tries to control her children Tom and Laura. ... All of the character...

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Laura appears to be the most important character in the play, perhaps the main character intended by Williams. ... Laura doesn't seem to realize this, however, the irony describes Laura's own world of illusion. ... When Jim is introduced, we almost feel sorry for the Wingfields. What will Jim do when his normalcy encounters the Wingfields out of touch world? ... Jim is only a page in the chapter about the Wingfield's. ...

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These symbols give an insight and understanding of the life of the Wingfields. ... Next is the glass figures that reside in Laura's menagerie are symbols of Laura herself. ... The significance of this symbolism to the theme of the play is seen in the way life, for the Wingfields, is devoid of reality. ... It was fragile and unique, like Laura. ... He uses the imagery of a glass unicorn to help convey the emotional anguish of the character, Laura. ...

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"The apartment faces an alley and is entered by a fire escape, a structure whose name is a touch of accidental poetic truth." (426) This represents the "bridge" between the illusory world of the Wingfields and the world of reality. ... Wingfield, the absent father of Tom and Laura and husband to Amanda. ... Williams uses the theme of escape throughout The Glass Menagerie to demonstrate the hopelessness of each character's dreams. ... When Amanda tells Laura to practice typing, Laura instead plays with her glass collection. ... This is symbolic of Laura's acceptance of being differ...

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