"The Glass Menagerie" by Tennessee Williams

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"Tennessee Williams is a playwright who makes strong use of symbolism and imagery, and he uses a great deal of both in The Glass Menagerie, a play many feel recalls Williams' own family situation. This idea is strengthened by the fact that the brother, Tom, is a budding writer who leaves home, and the play is presented as a memory, something that Tom as narrator emphasizes at the outset. Tom in fact also emphasizes the symbolic nature of the play itself. He describes the characters to be presented and indicates that one of them is more realistic than the others, being an emissary from a world of reality that we were somehow set apart from. But since I have a poet's weakness for symbols, I am using this character also as a symbol; he is the long-delayed but always expected..."

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