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

With Amanda and Laura however, it is the way into reality (Symbolism in The Glass Menagerie). In the case of Laura the fire escape...

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...

character of Laura is very illustrative of this, and she is somewhat reminiscent of such women as Ophelia, from Shakespeares Hamle...

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...

the additional mouth to feed will put the family into jeopardy. The audience knows that she is considering abortion. To end all of...

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 ...

part of the illusionary world. Laura, on the other hand, thinks of the fire escape as a way in and not a way out. This can be seen...

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

of Blue Mountains finest male suitors. She makes frequent mention of Blue Mountain and Blue Roses, and one can assume this symbol...

function as one interfused mass of automatism" (Williams 3). This is a setting that exists perhaps in every large city in the na...

around the characters. Through the decaying setting, and also a setting that is quite dreamlike, the story begins on a very allusi...

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...

In many ways the social failure of America as a whole at this time in history is symbolized by the personal failure experienced...

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

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

As a young woman Catherine was apparently already determined to be a very powerful and effective leader. She "was ambitious as wel...

same time he undercuts Gatsby by telling readers that he made his money illegally; he was a bootlegger (he sold illegal whiskey du...

not abhor, which is very important in setting up the story: "Only Gatsby, the man who gives his name to this book, was exempt from...

the four most important symbols are the characters names, especially the women; the green light on Daisys dock, the so-called "val...

of Gatsby himself, at least in part. Gatsby is far from a worthless fool like Trimalchio, but he is surrounded by sycophants and o...

America in the 1920s" (Gibb 96). Gatsby is, in many ways, the epitome of new growth and renewal and thus of a metaphorical landsca...

ever written. F. Scott Fitzgeralds portrait of Jay Gatsby resonates with almost every reader because he is so human in his hopes a...

Fitzgerald was seeking in his style and the forms that were emerging in relationship to the 20s. Berman notes how many of his stor...

for that reason its possible that he colors the accounts he gives. However, he is the closest thing we have to a neutral observer,...

book, Benjamin Schreier claims that Gatsby, if not actually black-an unusual interpretation to be sure-is someone of color; he bas...

value into ultimately empty goals; this is indicated by the comparison of Gatsbys quest for Daisy with the "American dream" itself...

shaped by trying to achieve the American dream, but by experiencing what occurs when others achieve and pass on the values of weal...