'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. ... In search of companionship, she builds her own fantasy world with her glass-animal friends. ... Laura moved from one blissful fantasy to "infinite desolation" and back to her make-believe world of glass-animal "friends" as companions. ... Since she was reliving her own life, she failed to understand the dif...

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