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

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

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

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 ...

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

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

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

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...

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

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...

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...

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....

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

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...

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

was in terms of the media, so are many people in the world. President Bush is surely a victim of the press, and perhaps rightly so...

of the play supports the concept of Willy as someone who is "stuck" emotionally at an immature level. Conclusion : As this indica...

state. In this scene he envisions his brother telling his sons about how he had adventures and became a very rich man, a successfu...

of the language in the beginning (Miller 56). Even though he is not "the finest character that ever lived" he does deserve some re...

of Willys character shows him to be a highly flawed man, who makes innumerable mistakes and brings about his own tragic demise by ...

the others; interestingly, he is also probably the weakest character. What is Mamet doing by drenching his audiences in the F-wor...

of the American Dream with Benjamin Franklin who seemed to prove that through honest and hard work an individual could find succes...

These boys are very reflective of how children will take on the traits of their father, through the insistent nature of their fath...

the audience; and finally, it must be complex (McManus, 1999). Complex here means the plot contains a "reversal of intention (peri...

and just let the warm air bathe over me" (Miller 14). But then he suddenly starts to run off the road: "Im tellin ya, I absolutely...

to Bill" (Kosenko). The women, in general, accept their position as submissive in the little community and it is actually only Tes...

faults at all. In our modern society, and perhaps in the past century or so, a tragedy does not necessarily possess all those qu...