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...

• Word Count: 702
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

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). ...

• Word Count: 875
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

( Laura turns towards the window gripping firmly onto her glass ornament.Amanda comes out of the kitchen with a pitcher full of lemonade, unaware of what just happened between Laura and Jim. ) Amanda: Jim have you ever tried some southern lemonade. ... People change and grow, just like my glass menagerie... Laura has her own store of glass menagerie, and Amanda died of natural causes in peace, because Laura was married and Tom is now the head of the merchant marines, who is married to a nurse and has his own daughter named Amanda. ) ...

• Word Count: 950
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

In the memory play The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams, a man named Tom recounts his memory of his sister, Laura and his mother, Amanda. According to Tom, Amanda lives in the past, striving to find suitors for Laura, and Laura is all too consumed with her glass collection, while Tom works to support the three of them. ...

• Word Count: 1672
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School