Tennessee Williams' play "The Glass Menagerie" over the years has become a classic. It is a true story in which Williams, places himself as the narrator and one of the main characters of the play. The story relives the horrors of the Great Depression and the effects that it had on many people's lives. The main characters in the story are Tom Wingfield, Amanda Wingfield, Laura Wingfield, Jim O'Connor, and only what is left of Mr. Wingfield, a photograph. Tom Wingfield has been left behind by his father to provide for his neurotic mother, Amanda, and his desperately shy sister, Laura. Amanda has all but given up hope for Laura to find a suitable gentleman caller. Now it is left up to Tom to find so

Williams also uses Laura's glass unicorn as a symbol. Since Laura is so "pain-fully shy" the fact that she has a slight limp only hinders things (Hart). Laura's mother makes her feel as if she is crippled. Laura puts all of her time and attention in her glass collection, where she has control of the fragile pieces. Her favorite piece is a glass unicorn. One night while Laura and Jim, a gentleman caller, are dancing, they knock the unicorn onto the floor where that horn breaks off. Laura wasn't devastated she simply tells Jim that she will "just imagine he had an operation. The horn was removed to make him feel less-freakish (Roberts and Jacobs 1623)!"

The first of many props that Williams chooses to symbolize is the fire escape. At the beginning of the

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