Tennessee Williams is one the major writers of the

mid-twentieth century. He has written plays like The Glass

Managerie and A Streetcar Named Desire. The common theme of

The Glass Menagerie is that hopeful aspirations are followed by

inevitable disappointments. This theme is common throughout all of

Williams' books and throughout his own life as well. It is shown

through the use of symbols and characters.

"I have only one major theme for my work, which is the

destructive impact of society on the sensitive non-conformist

individual (Williams Netscape)." Symbols help to show the dreams

and desires that the characters long for and also the restrictions

that keep them from fulfilling those dreams. In The Glass

Menagerie, the fire escape symbolizes the way for Amanda

Wingfield to bring a man into the house to save her and her

daughter. To Tom, the fire escape is a means of escape from the

house that traps him- a path to the outside world (Susqu

was institutionalized for having schizophrenia and was not able to

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once fine qualities continued to flourished alongside a narrowness of

people from his life. Amanda Wingfield from The Glass Menagerie

his father, the man "in love with long distances (Williams 30)''. The

may use it objectively in his art(Susquehanna. "New Critical")." In

"New Critical"). Rainbows in The Glass Menagerie symbolize hope

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