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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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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