The Glass Menagerie, by Tennessee Williams, was written and first performed in 1944. ... Williams is able to incorporate elements such as setting, symbolism, and conflict to express a main theme of escape. Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie takes place in the Wingfield family apartment, in 1937. ... Another literary element that Williams presents throughout The Glass Menagerie is symbolism. ... All of these elements are vital in communicating one of the main themes of The Glass Menagerie. ...

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In The Glass Menagerie, Tennessee Williams shows how a person is capable of creating an escape to avoid facing something in their lives, in most cases, reality. ... Another example of symbolism used in The Glass Menagerie is the movies. ... Another character in The Glass Menagerie that creates escapes to avoid reality is Tom's mother Amanda. ... In The Glass Menagerie, Laura too creates many escapes to avoid facing reality. One example of symbolism used by Williams to portray how Laura escapes is her glass menagerie. ...

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Tennessee Williams", gives the reader an inside look into the lives of a common family living in the pre-war depression era in his play The Glass Menagerie. ... The two different symbols that can be found in the Glass Menagerie are escape, which provides hope and diversion from the outside world and the glass menagerie, which is a metaphor for Laura's fragility and uniqueness. ... Williams uses the theme of escape throughout The Glass Menagerie to demonstrate the hopelessness of each character's dreams. The symbol of the glass menagerie represents a safe place to hide from realit...

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The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams is a play abounding with symbolism. Connections that exist are between the fire escape and the way Tom escapes from his problems, the glass figurines and Laura's life, and the unicorn and her self-image. ... Next is the glass figures that reside in Laura's menagerie are symbols of Laura herself. ... Laura escapes to the world of her menagerie where she is safe from the world of people. ... These are just a few of the many symbols Tennessee Williams places in his play The Glass Menagerie. ...

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Symbolism: The Glass Menagerie Tennessee Williams uses symbolism throughout his classic play The Glass Menagerie. ... Williams uses symbols to effectively express the theme of The Glass Menagerie. ... Symbols used in this classic play are the fire escape, Laura's "glass menagerie," and rainbows. ... Finally, the symbol of rainbows is used throughout the story, but is less prominent and obvious than those of the fire escape or the "glass menagerie." ... The fire escape as a sense of escape both to the world and away from it, the "glass menagerie" as a symbol of Laura's fra...

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The Play is about a Family Trying to Succeed The Glass Menagerie has many different interpretations and one of the plays" main themes is that it is about a family trying to succeed. ... Keeping her Glass Menagerie safe and secure is also an important factor in keeping Laura happy too. ... Laura, by consoling only in her Glass Menagerie and Amanda being the worst - forcing her children to live the life she wanted. My theme ends on an unfortunate note, as does the play. Tom leaves the Wingfield family, although succeeding in some way of the escapism from Amanda, Laura keeps to her precious Gl...

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The Glass Menagerie Tennessee Williams" "memory play" originates after World War II in a dark, dreary alley in St. ... He dislikes being stuck in the Philly warehouse job and dreams of one day escaping. ... Eventually Tom gets so fet up with his situation he says he's going to the movies, and rages out and down the all to familiar fire escape after shattering a glass. ... She has become enveloped into her own small world of glass animals, hence The Glass Menagerie. ... The theme that I get out of the play is the idea that Laura is looking for an escape in her glass menagerie. ...

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The Glass Menagerie This play I would call tragic drama. ... The only happiness she has is in her glass menagerie. ... 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 facing it. Laura's escape mechanism is illness when a situation threatens her. She also created a world in her glass menagerie, so she can stay clear of confrontation. ...

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Escape The Glass Menagerie is a play of a family of three: a mother and two grown children, who live in a St. ... She spends the amount of her time cleaning and observing her collection of glass figures. ... When Jim comes over, she lets him hold the glass unicorn and says, "Go on, I trust you with him" (459). ... The escape theme demonstrated in the fire escape, the dance hall, Mr. ... The only escape in life is solving your problems, not avoiding them. ...

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'The Glass Menagerie' by Tennessee Williams is a play in which Tom, the narrator and protagonist, has to deal with the idea of delusion. The play – which explores the themes of abandonment and the impossibility of true escape - is set in St Louis in the late 1930s. ... She uses various escape mechanisms in order to endure her present position in life. ... In search of companionship, she builds her own fantasy world with her glass-animal friends. ... Since she was reliving her own life, she failed to understand the different personalities that her children possessed and ende...

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The Glass Menagerie is mainly about the spiritual paralysis of human beings as the result of the depressive atmosphere of the society, breakdown of family institution and lack of understanding among even the most intimate persons; that is, the members of a family. In the 1939 letter to his editor, Audrey Wood, Williams states, "I have only one major theme for my work which is the destructive impact of society on the sensitive non-conformist individual" (qtd. in Haley "Rhetoric"). ... There are important autobiographical aspects in The Glass Menagerie and the characters which it depicts. ... ...

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The Search for Happiness Tennesse Williams examines the main theme of happiness in his play "The Glass Menagerie." ... Williams first explores a family that is unable to face reality, using a glass unicorn to represent one family member's uniqueness, Laura. ... In every conflict at home, Tom escapes by leaving the apartment. ... Tom must find a way to escape his family without disturbing them. If Malvolio is not successful at escaping the coffin, he will suffocate and die. ...

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