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Laura's Glass Managerie

Laura’s Glass Menagerie
The Glass Menagerie in “The Glass Menagerie”, by Tennessee Williams, is used to describe, or symbolize Laura’s character in the play. Laura, a very frail and insecure character from the play, lives in a world of illusions. Crippled with one leg shorter than the other from a childhood illness called pluerosis, Laura lives her life through her collection of glass animals that provide her refuge from reality. A “fragile and rare” particular glass animal called the unicorn symbolizes the character’s sufferings. The brilliant use of the imagery of the glass unicorn helps express the emotional anguish of Laura. Only when the unicorn loses its horn, and becomes like the other glass horses, does Laura learn to break from her fantasy world, snap into reality and realize that she is not a “freak” as she thought she had been.
Laura’s obsession of her glass ornaments is first eminent in scene two where she is seated in her delicate ivory chair, ...

Posted by: Sandeep Jador

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