This play, unique among Williams's dramas, combines poetic and unrealistic techniques with grim naturalism to achieve a gossamer effect of compassion, fragility, and frustration, typical of Tennessee Williams at his most sensitive and natural best." (Bloom, Tennessee Williams's the Glass Menagerie 41) The Glass Menagerie is the story of the Wingfield's a dysfunctional family that has surrendered to depression and given up on life as being anything more than a means to an end
Tom wants to leave home but feels that "to leave home and Amanda is to insure self-preservation, but at the same time to kill something vital within the self." (Crandell, The Critical Response to Tennessee Williams 7) In essence, the search for a man for both Amanda and Laura is actually the search for reality and truth
Clearly, however, the family shared the burden for what happened to Rose, and no matter what he said, Williams would seek many times to exorcise his guilt over Rose's illness." (O'Connor, 3) In The Glass Menagerie, we find the character of Tom held hostage by his sister's illness, his mother's demands and his own passive misery
It's you that make me rush through meals with your hawklike attention to every bite I take." (Williams, p
When his mother, Amanda, accuses him of going to the movies far too much, he tells her that his life in the warehouse forces him to seek excitement elsewhere. "Man is by instinct a lover, a hunter, a fighter, and none of those instincts are given much play at the warehouse," (Williams 33) he tells her, illustrating that the fictional worlds afford him the freedom to reinvent himself in a way that conventional life does not
The weather is good here and I am also doing well. "I traveled around a great deal" (Florman and Kestler, 2016)
The reason for watching movies every night was just to give myself a break from my dull and monotonous life and experience the adventure that I have always dreamed of. As for you, the escape meant the escape from the outer world, while for me, it was the escape to the outer world (Roberts 2016)
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