The Glass Menagerie is a play written by Tennesse Williams. Although, he wrote other successful plays, "The Glass Menagerie" was his first hit. It is a story of mother, her son and daughter, who are living a confusing life and who keeps on clinging "to a dream world that can so easily be shattered into jagged pieces, as illusion is destroyed by reality".
Living your past during the present, might be troubling and confusing. Amanda, the mother, keeps on talking about her past and she keeps on thinking that everything should be like her past. She wants Laura, especially, to be like her. Amanda keeps giving her lecture about how she had many gentleman callers knocking her door when she was young, since Laura is the fragile and shy type of girl. She is very unrealistic, because nowadays for her it is full of darkness. So, she uses her past to get away from it, and give her children a boost in life. But it doesn't really work, because Laura drops out of business college and Tom, her son, apparently has a plan of leaving them. Because she was so unrealistic, both her daughter and son took a turn of their own in life, leaving her deceived and broken-hearted. .
Living your life with something unusual than others is a little too difficult, but if you think that just because of that you are inferior to others, you have to think again! It actually makes your life worse thinking like that, take the example of Laura. She always thought of herself inferior than others, because she was crippled. She never did anything in her life except play with her Glass Menagerie and plays those worn-out records. All her life, she was always the home-girl type. .
