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Glass Menagerie analysis

Glass Menagerie is a memory play where illusion overcomes reality in more ways than one.Tennessee Williams uses various unconventional techniques to send the reader into an illusionary world where reality is hidden deep inside.Amanda Wingfield - Laura and Tom's mother. A proud, vivacious woman, Amanda clings fervently to memories of a vanished, genteel past. She is simultaneously admirable, charming, pitiable, and laughable.Laura Wingfield - Amanda's daughter and Tom's younger sister. Laura has a bad leg, on which she has to wear a brace, and walks with a limp. Twenty-three years old and painfully shy, she has largely withdrawn from the outside world and devotes herself to old records and her collection of glass figurines.
Tom Wingfield...

Posted by: Janet Valerio

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