'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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