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

path to happiness. When Jim comes over for dinner on that fateful evening, he is in several instances cold and behaves selfishly....

to by Jim in very earthy, concrete terms that nonetheless indicate that she is pretty. When she says that blue "is wrong for-roses...

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

of the American theater; it is also one of the first to combine realism and symbolism successfully. This paper discusses Williamss...

visit is an old school friend of the son and daughter. In the play there is a similar sense of expectation involving this man as T...

"real" (insofar as theater can ever be said to be real) happenings, but a carefully selected group of scenes that illustrate the i...

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

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

her thumb. The character description of Tom tells us that is "A poet with a job in a warehouse. His nature is not remorseless, but...

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

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...

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

decides rather early on that each of them would be better off without the other to feed, fuel and nurture the dysfunction of their...

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

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

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

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...

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...

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

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

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...

In six pages this essay analyzes the thematic importance of props, lights, setting, and stage direction in Tennessee Williams' The...

In four pages a thematic analysis of The Glass Menagerie is presented. There are no other sources listed....

In seven pages this paper discusses how Tennessee Williams' own life and family pain was reflected in the drama The Glass Menageri...

In six pages this paper analyzes the plays The Glass Menagerie, A Streetcar Named Desire, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, and Night of the ...

Durang's satire of Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie is considered in this report of five pages in which the author's succes...

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

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