Glass Menagerie
The reason the Unicorn is a symbol in the play, is to represent Laura and the fact that she feels different just like the Unicorn. In her eyes the unicorn even with its differences from the other horses is accepted. She relates with this, because it differs from her experiences in high school where she did not feel as though she fit in.Jim states that he remembered her being late to class and she says, “Yes it was so hard for me getting upstairs, I had that brace on my leg—it clumped so loud! Jim responds, “I never heard any clumping.” (249) This is just one example of how she over exaggerates her leg brace. She isolated herself from everyone because she was so self-conscious about her leg brace. Her mother Amanda does not help her overcome the feeling that she is different from everyone else. She makes Laura feel inadequate and that she will never be able to fit into society. I don’t think that Amanda does this on purpose, or even realizes she is doing it. I say this, because she is constantly checking on Laura and telling her what to do. An example of this is when she comes home from her D.A.R. meeting and Laura asks her how her meeting went and her mother tells her “No No I did not have the strength to go to D.A.R. In f
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Learning Laura, , unicorn symbolizes, mother tells, losing horn, leg brace,
Approximate Word count = 820
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)
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