The Glass Menagerie: A Study in Symbolism

In the drama, The Glass Menagerie (1945), Tennessee Williams reflects upon personal experiences he and his family encountered during the Depression of the 1930s. As a lower class family, the characters are placed in the slums of St. Louis in 1935. The protagonist, Tom Wingfield, is the narrator and Williams surrogate. Living with his mother … Read more

Tennessee Williams and the Southern Belle

And such girls! . . . more grace, more elegance, more refinement, more guileless purity, were never found in the whole world over, in any age, not even that of the halcyon . . . so happy was our peculiar social system- there was about these country girls . . . mischief . . . … Read more

A Streetcar Named Desire

Tennessee Williams was once quoted as saying “Symbols are nothing but the natural speech of drama… the purest language of plays” (Adler 30). This is clearly evident in A Streetcar Named Desire, one of Williams’s many plays. I n analyzing the main character of the story, Blanche DuBois, it is crucial to use both the … Read more

Impressions of The Glass Menagerie

Tennessee Willams’ The Glass Menagerie is a classic play that was written in the mid-forties, shortly after the close of World War II. In a time when people were beginning to become more interested in material wealth, Williams focused on the human soul and condition. He showed that many people are trapped in a fantasy … Read more

The playwright, Tennessee Williams

The playwright, Tennessee Williams, allows the main characters in the plays A Streetcar Named Desire and The Glass Menagerie to live miserable lives which they try to deny and later change. The downfall and denial of the Southern gentlewoman is a common theme in both plays. The characters, Blanche from A. S. N. D. and … Read more

The playwright, Tennessee Williams

The playwright, Tennessee Williams, allows the main characters in the plays A Streetcar Named Desire and The Glass Menagerie to live miserable lives which they try to deny and later change. The downfall and denial of the Southern gentlewoman is a common theme in both plays. The characters, Blanche from A. S. N. D. and … Read more

A Streetcar Named Desire Essay

In the play A Streetcar Named Desire, Tennessee Williams uses his brilliant writing to bring life to his characters in the story. I will be composing a character sketch on Stanley, one of the main actors in the play. I will focus on evaluating Stanley’s ever changing character traits in the role he plays. They … Read more

Life Is A Lonely Tale Of Alienation

Life is a lonely tale of alienation, as Tennessee Williams conveys though his play, “The Glass Menagerie. ” Williams surrounds Laura in isolation from a world in which they wish to belong to by using various symbols. The symbolic nature of the motifs hidden within the lines of this play provides meaning to the theme … Read more

Theme of abusement at The Glass Menagerie

Abuse that begins during early childhood is very detrimental to the one being abused. The child is just beginning to learn who they are as a person. Children who are abused or made fun of often feel that they are unworthy and have little or no power and that the bullies are superior and have … Read more

The Glass Menagerie: Struggle to Fit Into Society

“The Glass Menagerie” by Tennessee Williams shows the struggle of two people to fit into society, Tom and Laura, and how society wouldn’t accept them. They were the dreamers that were unjustly kept out and you may even go as far as to say persecuted into staying out and aloof like the other dreamers which … Read more