The Glass Menagerie is a play containing such dramatic and exquisite characters that it is hard not to feel the emotions and feelings held by each one. ... The Glass Menagerie is an extremely poetic and heartwarming drama. ... "Such matters as loneliness, buried and released violence, sex and difference' "the last often signified by physical difference, like lame Laura in The Glass Menagerie- (Kauffmann 152). ... "The poignancy of The Glass Menagerie derives principally from the characters of Amanda and Laura, whom Williams pictures as trapped in a conflict between reality and ...

• Word Count: 2052
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

The lights dim as the "Glass Menagerie" theme music plays. ... Amanda goes through a melodramatic routine of tearing up the keyboard diagram and speaking vaguely about deception before Laura can extract what exactly has happened. ... Amanda wonders in a hopeless tone what will become of them if Laura refuses a "business career"; will they play with the glass menagerie and listen to Father's old records all day? ... Williams sought the opposite in The Glass Menagerie: truth disguised as illusion. ... All of the characters in The Glass Menagerie's are sympathetic: this is one of the ...

• Word Count: 5517
• Approx Pages: 22
• Grade Level: High School

He had knowledge of the vicious deception brought upon by his uncle, and he was the only person capable of correcting or at least trying to justify the death of his father. ... As for The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams (1911-1983), the idea conveyed in this play is that of image versus reality. ... Laura has her own imaginary reality through her glass menagerie her private world, and the breaking of it .The unicorn is Laura's singularity, her return to reality, and her return to her retreat back into her world. . ...

• Word Count: 2132
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Blanche, when accused of deliberate deception says only, "I didn't lie in my heart." ... In The Glass Menagerie, Laura's unrealistic grasp on life clashes with Tom's ability to function in the "real" world. ...

• Word Count: 2772
• Approx Pages: 11
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School