Themes of The Glass Menagerie
"The Glass Menagerie" is a play that contains intense humanfeelings; frustration, shyness, regretfulness, anger, and sadness. The play is set in the apartment of the Wingfield family. In this cramped, dinghy place lives three characters; Amanda, Laura, and Tom, who are desperate Amanda is a shrew, she wants to live through her daughter, Laura. Her dream is for her daughter to marry to a well-educated man and support her throughout the rest of her life. Amanda always make complaining remarks about her husband who had left her with Tom and Laura. Amanda nags Tom for spending too much time watching movies instead of working and finding a suitable for Laura. She likes to brag about how many Gentleman callers came to her house to pursue her. Tom is the narrator of the play. Hi
detests when his mother tell him what to do and how to do it, sometimes glass collection, fragile in every sense. As an effect of a childhood illness, responsibilities of taking care of his mother and sister. He wishes to have a Tom escapes in more than one way, first is the fire escape which Laura is shy and has a low self-esteem. She is compared to her relieves in playing the same old record day after day. Across their
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Approximate Word count = 561
Approximate Pages = 2 (250 words per page double spaced)
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