Analysis of Hamlet and Glass Menagerie

In Tennessee Williams’s The Glass Menagerie and William Shakespeare’s Hamlet, we see how Family history greatly affects both the characters of Hamlet and Tom Wingfield.
Tennessee Williams wrote the glass menagerie in 1941. The Glass Menagerie can be categorized as a “Memory Play” which means that most of the play is narrated from the narrators memory.
The play is set in St Louis in 1937. During this time while Williams was writing the play the economy was going through a recession. This affects the play in that while everyone else’s life and surroundings were changing the home of the Wingfield remains the same. Amanda Wingfield who is the mother of the household is not happy with her daughter Laura. Laura has a physical defect and wears a brace on her leg. Her mother is not happy with her due to the fact that she is really shy and does not attract men or as Amanda refers to them as “Gentlemen Callers”. In an attempt to fulfill the preconceived path that most parents ...