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the freedom and opportunities offered by America. In other words, this immigrant mother means well. She simply wants her daughter ...
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 ...
offers a very powerful image of the lives these people live trapped in a tiny apartment and in their individual lives. Melville...
Tom, then, is the central male figure in the family. Their father has abandoned them some many years before, and so it has fallen...
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...
Tom is central to defining the family stratification in the play, and also shapes a distinct view of the way familial associations...
decides rather early on that each of them would be better off without the other to feed, fuel and nurture the dysfunction of their...
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...
we look at the content of the play and how it may be staged we have a better idea of how to interpret the work. It is after lookin...
the additional mouth to feed will put the family into jeopardy. The audience knows that she is considering abortion. To end all of...
memory of past events. He explains that he will not be a narrator, "I am the opposite of a stage magician. He gives you illusion t...
number and must join the rat race. Individuality is not prized and someone who has opinions, especially if that person is a woman,...
path to happiness. When Jim comes over for dinner on that fateful evening, he is in several instances cold and behaves selfishly....
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 ...
for she "She breathes with motherly tenderness and love for all, for life itself. And Linda has a heart full and hands outstretche...
In many ways the social failure of America as a whole at this time in history is symbolized by the personal failure experienced...
the one who is primarily the main focus of the play and it is her collection that bears the title of the story, as she collects gl...
scene begins Laura Wingfield (Karen Allen) and her gentleman caller Jim OConnor (James Naughton) are looking at Lauras "glass mena...
around the characters. Through the decaying setting, and also a setting that is quite dreamlike, the story begins on a very allusi...
In four pages this paper analyzes human dreams in a contrast and comparison of these two award winning American dramas. Two sourc...
of the American theater; it is also one of the first to combine realism and symbolism successfully. This paper discusses Williamss...
In four pages a thematic analysis of The Glass Menagerie is presented. There are no other sources listed....
in his pocket (Williams 22). He frequently reminds the audience that they are watching a "memory play," which means he possesses ...
With Amanda and Laura however, it is the way into reality (Symbolism in The Glass Menagerie). In the case of Laura the fire escape...
she clearly lives in the past. At the time in which the play takes place Amanda has apparently raised her two children to adulthoo...
his mother Amanda, and his sister Laura retreat into their own safe havens of illusion. As one critic observed, "No matter how ur...
character of Laura is very illustrative of this, and she is somewhat reminiscent of such women as Ophelia, from Shakespeares Hamle...
In three pages this essay discusses this short story by Tennessee Williams in an analysis of techniques....
in a language that, though poetic, little resembles modern English: "By very force he raft hir maidenheed, / For which oppressioun...