What Is The Mood Of The Glass Menagerie
The Glass Menagerie a memory play by Tennessee Williams, based in St. Louis, follows the Wingfields ( Tom, Laura and Amanda) on their unknown quest to finding their own reality outside of the gender and social boxes society has already put them in. The glass menagerie is more than just entertainment it’s art. It’s art because it makes the reader put themselves in someone else’s shoes but in a way that they feel comfortable because they can relate to the actors struggles; it makes people fall in and out of love; it shows the readers what it’s like to be lost in the world and how they can be found; it makes a people hate and feel for the antagonist all in one scene. Art itself is defined and seen in many different ways. The Glass Menagerie shows
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In scene 7 Laura the narrator’s sister is starting off her date with her gentleman caller Jim O’Connor in the dark. The lights went out and scene shifts to Laura and Jim on the floor by the sofa with a candle. The conversation is about high school. Laura starts by explaining her struggling with communication and making friends which she explains stemmed from her lack of confidence. Jim then responds to in an unexpected way on pg 781 lines 32-44 he says "I wish that you were my sister. I'd teach you to have some confidence in yourself. The different people are not like other people, but being different is nothing to be ashamed of. Because other people are not such wonderful people. They're one hundred times one thousand. You're one times one! They walk all over the earth. You just …show more content…
The Glass Menagerie is told from Tom Wingfield's memory of events in his life, but the role of memory itself in the play represents the memories of Tennessee Williams. “Memory takes a lot of poetic licence. It omits some details; others are exaggerated, according to the emotional value of the articles it touches, for memory is seated predominantly in the heart. The interior is therefore rather dim and poetic.” In the beginning of the play Tennessee Williams explains the glory of memory plays and what they represent. He explains how the telling of a person's memory is poetic in a way because readers get to place themselves in someone else’s memory, they become
In scene 7 Laura the narrator’s sister is starting off her date with her gentleman caller Jim O’Connor in the dark. The lights went out and scene shifts to Laura and Jim on the floor by the sofa with a candle. The conversation is about high school. Laura starts by explaining her struggling with communication and making friends which she explains stemmed from her lack of confidence. Jim then responds to in an unexpected way on pg 781 lines 32-44 he says "I wish that you were my sister. I'd teach you to have some confidence in yourself. The different people are not like other people, but being different is nothing to be ashamed of. Because other people are not such wonderful people. They're one hundred times one thousand. You're one times one! They walk all over the earth. You just …show more content…
The Glass Menagerie is told from Tom Wingfield's memory of events in his life, but the role of memory itself in the play represents the memories of Tennessee Williams. “Memory takes a lot of poetic licence. It omits some details; others are exaggerated, according to the emotional value of the articles it touches, for memory is seated predominantly in the heart. The interior is therefore rather dim and poetic.” In the beginning of the play Tennessee Williams explains the glory of memory plays and what they represent. He explains how the telling of a person's memory is poetic in a way because readers get to place themselves in someone else’s memory, they become