In most plays and novels, authors create depth in characters by demonstrating habits and actions. This is literary device is clearly demonstrated in the play "The Glass Menagerie- by Tennessee Williams. ... Examining the symbols of the unicorn, coffin, and movies, Tennessee Williams seems to be saying that there is more comfort in illusion and imagination than in reality, developing the theme of fantasy verses reality. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

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 are a major part of this play. Symbols used in this classic play are the fire escape, Laura's "glass menagerie," and rainbows. ... Tennessee Williams manages to create a powerful play using the element of symbolism. ...

• Word Count: 991
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• Grade Level: High School

Our character, Laura Wingfield, from Tennessee Williams" play, The Glass Menagerie, suffers from a crippled leg that causes her to limp whenever she walks. ... When her mother finally found out about it, she tried to avoid having to talk back or answer her by trying to escape to her glass menagerie or playing the phonograph. ... Williams showers his play with intense symbolism. As symbolism within the play, Williams describes Laura's frailty as fragile as the glass animals she cares so much about, both being like the other. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

In the story of The Glass Menagerie, written by Tennessee Williams, a play about a middle class family struggle with each other. Williams creates a world in which the characters escape from the present situation. ... She searches escape from her physical and emotion disability by collecting glasses ornaments and the play with a victrola. ... Tom is most face the moral dilemma in the play and is the only supporter for the family. ... In the play of "The Glass Menagerie" Williams portrays the conflict that exist in the reality and people's desires. ...

• Word Count: 778
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

'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. ... Williams used various ways such as imageries, exaggerations to convey the delusions to the audience. From the outset, Williams shows that Tom and Laura have to deal with a deluded Amanda on a daily basis. ... Williams warns us about the danger of fantasy – it always leads to harm. ...

• Word Count: 1567
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• Grade Level: High School

Commentary With Tom's direct address to the audience, the play identifies itself as a play. ... Williams's production notes and stage directions emphasize the striving for what Williams described as a "new plastic theater." ... Williams sought the opposite in The Glass Menagerie: truth disguised as illusion. ... Tennessee Williams (born Thomas Lanier Williams) was an aspiring poet in St. ... The tragedy of Rose had a profound effect on Williams's writing throughout his career. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

There is no easy answer towards who is considered to face life more realistically, mainly, because every character of the play lives, in some degree, in illusion. ... Another character which is very realistic is Jim, which the writer of the play, Tennessee Williams, makes metaphorically an element of "the world of reality" as it is said by Tom. ... During the whole play there is a clear evidence that we are in the presence of an atypical family. ... In the play there is a clear evidence of some similarities between Tom and his father. ... In the physical characteristics of glass, Laura's ...

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In Tennessee Williams's play, The Glass Menagerie, the main character named Amanda has a distorted view of reality becoming blinded of flaws in her family and herself. ... However instead of realizing the foolishness of her illusion, she blames Tom by saying, "What a wonderful joke you played on us!...

• Word Count: 713
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• 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. ... Tom's father left the family many years before the play takes place and has minimal contact with them. ... Later in the play, Amanda and Tom get into an argument concerning Tom's constant absence from the house. ... The idea of magic in the play provides more insight into Tom's motives regarding his aspirations to escape. ... Tom doesn't listen to Amanda, and continues to escape through alcohol throughout the play. ...

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