In life, many challenges must be faced. However sometimes, rather than confronting challenges, people see creating an escape to avoid reality as the simpler solution. In The Glass Menagerie, Tennessee Williams shows how a person is capable of creating an escape to avoid facing something in their lives, in most cases, reality. Symbolism extends throughout the play and helps bring out and develop the theme of how escapes are created to avoid reality.
Through symbolism, William is able to emphasize how one will create an escape to avoid facing reality. In The Glass Menagerie, Tom Wingfield is unhappy with his life as his primary role is to work and provide for his family. Tom creates many escapes to avoid the reality of the miserable life he lives. One example of symbolism used is the fire escape. Tom uses the fire escape frequently throughout the play to escape his responsibilities and to enter a deceptive realm where he is free of this burden. An example of this can be seen when, in Scene One, the family is having dinner and Amanda is criticizing the way Tom is eating. Tom gets frustrated and decides to go onto the fire escape to smoke. This is clear when Williams writes "Tom rises and walks toward the living room." (Williams 7). Clearly Tom's first choice of action is to avoid reality and to escape. Rather than continuing to deal with his mother Amanda, Tom decides to get up and leave. Another example of symbolism used in The Glass Menagerie is the movies. When Tom decides to leave the apartment, he often goes to the movies. This can be seen when tom says "I go to the movies because–I like adventure. Adventure is something I don't have much of at work, so I go to the movies." (Williams 33). It is obvious that Tom is miserable living in the apartment and working at the warehouse which are free of adventure. Therefore he uses the movies as an escape from his unhappy life and is able to achieve happiness.
Tennessee Williams takes the aspects of reality, idealism and illusion and mixes them together in The Glass Menagerie. ... - (The Glass Menagerie, page 59). ... (The Glass Menagerie, page 82). ... (The Glass Menagerie, page 86) Laura lives in her glass menagerie, which becomes her escape from reality. ... (The Glass Menagerie, page 45). ...
Tennessee Williams takes the aspects of reality, idealism and illusion and mixes them together in The Glass Menagerie. ... - (The Glass Menagerie, page 59). ... (The Glass Menagerie, page 82). ... (The Glass Menagerie, page 86) Laura lives in her glass menagerie, which becomes her escape from reality. ... (The Glass Menagerie, page 45). ...
play, the glass menagerie, all four members of the Wingfield family have chosen to hide from reality. ... Laura Wingfield has chosen to hide from reality in the play The Glass Menagerie. ... In the play The Glass Menagerie, Tom Wingfield has chosen to hide from reality. ... Mr Wingfield has also chosen to hide from reality in the play The Glass Menagerie. ... play, The Glass Menagerie. ...
The Glass Menagerie, by Tennessee Williams, was written and first performed in 1944. In the play, Williams describes the three members on the Wingfield family, their dreams, and the harsh realities they face in the society of the 1930s. ... Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie takes place in the Wingfield family apartment, in 1937. ... Another literary element that Williams presents throughout The Glass Menagerie is symbolism. ... All of these elements are vital in communicating one of the main themes of The Glass Menagerie. ...
Tennessee Williams", gives the reader an inside look into the lives of a common family living in the pre-war depression era in his play The Glass Menagerie. ... The two different symbols that can be found in the Glass Menagerie are escape, which provides hope and diversion from the outside world and the glass menagerie, which is a metaphor for Laura's fragility and uniqueness. ... For Tom, the fire escape is the way out of the world of Amanda and Laura, and his view into the world of reality. ... Williams uses the theme of escape throughout The Glass Menagerie to demonstrate the hopele...
Symbolism: The Glass Menagerie Tennessee Williams uses symbolism throughout his classic play The Glass Menagerie. ... Symbols used in this classic play are the fire escape, Laura's "glass menagerie," and rainbows. ... Another recurring symbol in the story is that of the "glass menagerie." ... Finally, the symbol of rainbows is used throughout the story, but is less prominent and obvious than those of the fire escape or the "glass menagerie." ... The fire escape as a sense of escape both to the world and away from it, the "glass menagerie" as a symbol of Laura's fragility,...
The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams is a play abounding with symbolism. Connections that exist are between the fire escape and the way Tom escapes from his problems, the glass figurines and Laura's life, and the unicorn and her self-image. ... Next is the glass figures that reside in Laura's menagerie are symbols of Laura herself. ... Laura escapes to the world of her menagerie where she is safe from the world of people. ... These are just a few of the many symbols Tennessee Williams places in his play The Glass Menagerie. ...
The Glass Menagerie The Characters" Escape From Reality in The Glass Menagerie The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams centers around a dream of escape. ... When Tom does finally escape his realities they continue to haunt him. ... So in the end, Tom isn't successful at escaping his realities. ... Laura escapes through her menagerie. ... Each character from Williams" The Glass Menagerie is looking for some unseen escape route. ...
Analysis of The Glass Menagerie The Glass Menagerie is an extremely well written play. ... The glass menagerie is the perfect representation of Laura. ... Tom goes out onto the fire escape to smoke every time he gets frustrated, so he can escape from reality. ... Tom not only uses the fire escape to separate himself from reality but he goes to the movies lots too. ... The Glass Menagerie was an extremely well written play. ...
