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

number and must join the rat race. Individuality is not prized and someone who has opinions, especially if that person is a woman,...

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...

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

In four pages this paper analyzes human dreams in a contrast and comparison of these two award winning American dramas. Two sourc...

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...

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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 ...

Tom is central to defining the family stratification in the play, and also shapes a distinct view of the way familial associations...

the freedom and opportunities offered by America. In other words, this immigrant mother means well. She simply wants her daughter ...

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

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...

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

she clearly lives in the past. At the time in which the play takes place Amanda has apparently raised her two children to adulthoo...

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

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

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...

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

In three pages this essay discusses this short story by Tennessee Williams in an analysis of techniques....

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