The Glass Menagerie Escape Analysis

In the Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams there is a since of fantasy and escape among the characters. They all live in there own type of world. Tom Wingfield, our narrator’s sister Laura is in a crippled world of her own. She lives in a world where it consist of phonography records and her favorite glass animals, she lives in a world of confinement and dependency. Amanda Wingfield, Tom’s mother lives in a world of the past, she feels trapped by the life she was given. She did not choose to be left with her two children alone not being able to enjoy life. She escapes to her world of her gentlemen callers to forget about it all. Tom Wingfiled lives in a world of movies and writing, but among all these characters, there is one character who has managed to escape the desperate and
Everyone wants to escape what is the reality they live in, but are not always successful. One main escape theme is the fire escape in the play. The fire escape is a symbol of a future escape and since of imprisonment, but everyone in the play uses it differently. Tom uses the fire escape to have the opportunity to get away. His mother is constantly bothering him and on his case about certain things that he sometimes just needs to step out and get away. Amanda Wingfield uses the fire escape as a way in for her gentlemen callers to enter her and Laura’s lives. Laura on the other hand does not have the best of luck on the fire escape as she slipped on the fire escape when she was on which could be a symbolism as to how hard it is for her to escape her situation, but instead of using the fire escape as some type of escape from reality, Laura tends to escape reality by staying in the apartment hiding instead of trying to get out. Laura sees the fire escape as something that can be safe yet dangerous. The safe part for her knows what is beyond the fire escape, but at the same time of the dangerous part of not