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Characterization and Ibsen's A Doll's House and Williams' The Glass Menagerie

and makes his way to her dressing room. He knocks, but then quickly enters the room, knowing that she is expecting him. The dan...

Depiction of Tom Wingfield in the 1987 Film Adaptation of The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams

Tom, then, is the central male figure in the family. Their father has abandoned them some many years before, and so it has fallen...

Mature Playwrights Tennessee Williams and Arthur Miller

clearly tied to Puritan religious practice, it nevertheless also has a political dimension that was particularly apt to the era in...

Literature and the Theme of Appearance versus Reality

see the beauty in one who does not like reality, while Walkers story offers up, in many ways, a negative look at one who is not wi...

The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams and Setting

in his pocket (Williams 22). He frequently reminds the audience that they are watching a "memory play," which means he possesses ...

Film Adaptation of Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie and the Mood Function of Music

scene begins Laura Wingfield (Karen Allen) and her gentleman caller Jim OConnor (James Naughton) are looking at Lauras "glass mena...

Williams, Melville, and Jackson

offers a very powerful image of the lives these people live trapped in a tiny apartment and in their individual lives. Melville...

Common Theme: Identifying with the Character

be "good" persons. But what does it mean to be "good"? I understand that to be good means to follow "their" rules, the churchs rul...

Levy on "The Glass Menagerie"

Levy believes that Laura is solely focused on her vulnerability, which is symbolized by the fragility of the glass (Levy). He writ...

Fathers: Death of a Salesman and The Glass Menagerie

In the beginning of the play one sees how Willy has no respect for his son Biff. He argues with his wife saying "Biff is a lazy bu...

Fantasy: Death of a Salesman and The Glass Menagerie

slowly come to a point where he realizes he is out of time and "His mind has run out of control. He is confused and no longer able...

Symbolism and Imagery in The Glass Menagerie

hopefully connect with the real world enough so that he is not mired in the dysfunctional and fantasy world that his mother and li...

Deconstructing “The Glass Menagerie”

Lye, Derrida and others, then The Glass Menagerie is a perfect play to apply this technique to, because it is full of silences, me...

The Glass Menagerie and A Raisin in the Sun

these women are not too controlling in relationship to every move their children make. This does not mean that one or the other wi...

Miller, Williams, Fantasy and Wishful Thinking

This essay pertains to Arthur Miller's "Death of a Salesman" and Tennessee Williams' "The Glass Menagerie" and how each play hand...

The Glass Menagerie and Tom’s Many Roles in the Play

be an enduringly popular play. Not as sensational as A Streetcar Named Desire, it offers just as bleak a portrait of a family stru...

American Values in The Glass Menagerie and The Harry Hastings Method

tries to tell the girl that her physical problems are minor and not noticeable-when the girl has her leg in a brace (Williams). Th...

Two Women: Laura in Glass Menagerie and Mabel in The Horse Dealer’s Daughter

be physically there in the production; the idea that she has a handicap, according to Williams, need only be suggested. The proble...

Character of Laura in The Glass Menagerie

This essay deal specifically with the character of Laura from The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams. The writer discusses her ...

A Review of Research Evaluating Green Tea Extract

A careful review of the experimental design and the potential motivations of the researchers is always wise. Otherwise the impact...

Polymer/Glass Laminate Performance and 'Bullet Proof' Glass

In six pages this paper discusses pure glass and polymer laminated glass properties and how laminated products are useful in the p...

Potential Approaches to Statistical Assessment

is limited as the results are inconclusive as they cannot be subjected to an hypothesis test. The statistical test chosen needs ...

Glass Menagerie, Symbolic Understanding of Jim

This essay pertains to how Laura, Amanda and Tom Wingfield each relate to Jim O'Connor on a symbolic level. Four pages in length, ...

Williams' Glass Menagerie/Role of Illusion

wall, "deserted his wife and children sixteen years earlier" (Koprince and Bloom). Tom describes him as a "a telephone man who fel...

Comparing Daisy from The Great Gatsby and Amanda from The Glass Menagerie

quicksand. Daisy hide a deeper meaning to her character, and that character is evil due to the unthinking nature of her superficia...

Uses of Symbolism in Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie and Anton Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard

In seven pages this paper contrasts and compares how the authors utilize symbolism in these respective works. Seven sources are c...

Comparing Daisy from The Great Gatsby with Amanda from The Glass Menagerie

flower, hence the name chosen for her by the author; however, a brightly appealing as she might be on the outside, she harbors the...

Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie and Escape

at home. He has to find some way to escape without destroying his family the way his father had sixteen years ago. It is for this ...

Comparison of Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller and The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams

his mother Amanda, and his sister Laura retreat into their own safe havens of illusion. As one critic observed, "No matter how ur...

Amanda in Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie and Linda in Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman

for she "She breathes with motherly tenderness and love for all, for life itself. And Linda has a heart full and hands outstretche...