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This research paper examines the character and dramatic function of "Tom" in Tennessee Williams' play The Glass Menageri...

In five pages this paper discusses how sexuality is thematically portrayed in Tennessee Williams' short story 'Desire and the Blac...

This essay pertains to Arthur Miller's "Death of a Salesman" and Tennessee Williams' "The Glass Menagerie" and how each play hand...

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

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

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...

In ten pages English melodrama during the Victorian Age is analyzed in terms of message and tone of style in a comparison and cont...

Funny women with a prominent role in the narrative are shared by many plays. This paper examines The Cherry Orchard by Chekhov, he...

shift constantly, and she appears sometimes pitiable, sometimes conniving, sometimes difficult to escape. Descriptions of Tom and...

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

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

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 ...

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

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...

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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 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...

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

for she "She breathes with motherly tenderness and love for all, for life itself. And Linda has a heart full and hands outstretche...

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...

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 ...