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The Glass Menagerie : a Memory Play Analysis
Autobiography
Memory
The Glass Menagerie
The Glass Menagerie: Memory Play The Glass Menagerie is Tennessee Williams most autobiographical work. However, it is not a true autobiographical work in the sense that there is chronological order and true documented facts to his life. Instead the play is more along the line of an “emotional” autobiographical piece. At times individuals exhibit selective…
The Glass Menagerie – Character Analysis of Tom Wingfield Sample
Character Analysis
The Glass Menagerie
A brother. a boy. a friend. Tom Wingfield the storyteller and a character in the drama. The Glass Menagerie. which is based on Toms memory of his many experiences populating with his Dendranthema grandifloruom and sister during the Great Depression. As this is a remembrance. the drama has a difficult clip showing the events objectively…
Student analysis of The Glass Menagerie
Student
The Glass Menagerie
Student analysis of The Glass Menagerie For the scene you have been given, explore the following elements and proud CE notes that can be presented in class and be shared via the blob. Quick summary Of what happens in the scene and the subject Of conversation a. Jim keeps Laura company while the power is…
| genre | Memory play |
|---|---|
| theme | The Glass Menagerie takes place in Tom's memory. Tom, Laura, Amanda, and Jim each feel the pull of both painful memories and nostalgia., |
| originally published | 1944 |
| description | The Glass Menagerie is a memory play by Tennessee Williams that premiered in 1944 and catapulted Williams from obscurity to fame. The play has strong autobiographical elements, featuring characters based on its author, his histrionic mother, and his mentally fragile sister Laura. |
| setting | St. Louis tpac.org |
| protagonist | The central character, or the protagonist, of Tennessee Williams's The Glass Menagerie is Tom Wingfield., |
| information | Playwright: Tennessee Williams Adaptations: The Glass Menagerie (1987), The Glass Menagerie (1950) Metaphor: The glass menagerie is a metaphor for the Wingfield family. Each character is a different piece of glass that when together composes a family within a menagerie. Through their differences from the outside world the Wingfields a menagerie that is stared at for being different from the rest of the world. |
