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Laura and "The Glass Menagerie", 2002.
The purpose of this paper is to introduce and discuss the character of Laura in "The Glass Menagerie," by Tennessee Williams.
1,235 words (approx. 4.9 pages), 0 sources, MLA, $ 42.95
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This paper analyzes the lead character, Laura. It draws metaphoric comparisons between Laura and her collection of glass animals. Laura is portrayed as a relatively silent character, with the least lines in the play, however she is the only family member who is capable of keeping the family together.
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"The menagerie and Laura are symbolic of each other. Laura loves the delicate glass ornaments, and they are fragile, just like she is. The unicorn loses its horn, and is now less than perfect, just like Laura and her handicap. She is also just as odd as a unicorn, which is a mythical creature, and Laura is just as unusual and odd."
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"The Glass Menagerie", 2006.
An analysis of the evolution and maturation of Laura's character in "The Glass Menagerie" by Tennessee Williams.
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This paper examines the play "The Glass Menagerie" and focuses on the evolution and maturation of Laura. In an attempt to pinpoint when this blooming of character actually happens, the paper analyzes and compares Scene 2 with Scene 7, especially the episode between Laura and Jim in order to provide a 'before-and-after' photograph of Laura's character.
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"Applied to The Glass Menagerie (1944) by Tennessee Williams, the concept of the maturation of characters - the process that makes an individual more responsible before life - has to be understood as the progression that will enable them to stop living in the past, and enjoy the present moment. For instance, from the beginning of the play, Tom is boiling from within and, towards the end, is "about to move." He eventually breaks free from the "two-by-four situation" he could not stand anymore. This therefore can be considered as a breakthrough. Yet, at the very end, Tom is smitten with remorse and guilt, for having abandoned his sister, Laura. The conclusion would be that Tom's maturation is somehow elusive, fragmented, not completed. I have chosen to focus on Laura, rather, who seems to undergo a demonstrable development through a 'moment' with Jim, in the very last scene. As I shall demonstrate, however, her maturation, her blossoming even, is nipped in the bud, which kicks her back into her secure environment. As often the case with Tennessee Williams, the encounter between Jim and Laura can be understood as the meeting between Reality and Poetry. After all, Jim is described as "the most realistic character in the play""
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Tennessee Williams' "The Glass Menagerie", 2007.
This paper describes the character of Laura in "The Glass Menagerie" by Tennessee Williams.
1,093 words (approx. 4.4 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 38.95
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This paper introduces, discusses, and analyzes the play "The Glass Menagerie" by Tennessee Williams. Specifically it highlights the character of Laura in the play and what she represents. The paper's author describes Laura as afraid of everything, including life. The paper also examines the relationship between Laura and her mother.
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"Laura Winfield is a grown young woman who still lives at home with her mother and brother. One of her legs is shorter than the other and so she wears a brace on her leg, and she is very self-conscious about it. She thinks it makes her unattractive and people make fun of her because she wears it. That is not the truth, however. In reality, her brace is not really that noticeable. Laura is handicapped, but it is not the brace that is her handicap. The way she lives her life is really her handicap, and it makes her a recluse and afraid. She is afraid of life and of really living life, and so, she uses her handicap as an excuse not to have to really participate in life."
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?The Glass Menagerie? by Tennessee Williams, 2004.
This paper discusses the character, Laura Wingfield?s, role as the author's alter ego in the play, "The Glass Menagerie" by Tennessee Williams.
1,050 words (approx. 4.2 pages), 5 sources, APA, $ 36.95
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This paper explains that, although ?The Glass Menagerie? centers its attention on Tom, another character, Laura Wingfield, Tom?s sister, emerges as a powerful individual in the story. The author points out that establishing Laura?s character takes more than physically describing her deficiencies, such as her being crippled. Laura is also characterized as a woman who has lost all hope of attaining a wonderful life in being a wife and mother. The paper relates that author Williams achieves self-actualization through Laura?s character in the same way that Tom and Laura finally free themselves from their emotional burdens in the play, ?The Glass Menagerie?.
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"Laura?s low regard for herself is not only developed within her but also by the people who are with her, especially Amanda, her mother, and Tom. This observation is expressed among critics who have illustrated Laura?s character as ?symbolic,? i.e., laden with hidden meanings meaningful only to Williams?. Indeed, she is identified as the character who is ?burdened by self-consciousness,? experiences a ?sense of worthlessness,? and ??yearning for ? ideal or mystical beauty and spiritual or romantic love? absolute emotional and artistic fulfillment??. The third symbolic description of Laura, which pertains to her inherent likeness for ?mystical beauty? is symbolically represented by her fascination of her glass collection, considering them as objects that compensate for her imperfection."
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Deception and 'The Glass Menagerie', 2008.
This paper analyzes the theme of deception in 'The Glass Menagerie' by Tennessee Williams.
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In this study, the writer examines the theme of deception in the Wingfield family in 'The Glass Menagerie' by Tennessee Williams. By analyzing the roles of Laura, Tom, and Amanda the writer notes that the crucial elements of self-deception can be realized within Williams' text. The writer points out that by critically analyzing how these characters deceive themselves, we can see that they also have a damaging impact on the very people they are trying to hide from within the play's storyline. In essence, the the writer maintains that the fantasy escapism of Laura, the sexist attitudes of Tom, and the materialism of Amanda are three aspects of deception that occur within 'The Glass Menagerie' by Tennessee Williams.
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"In this vital narrative, it is Laura that is deceiving herself through an obsession within unreal or fantasy objects in her glass collection. Self deception in this case is by far more damaging to the spirit, since Laura is incapable to finding a relationship with anyone else but her glass objects. This perspective comes in the realization that she cannot escape the insular world she has created, and in unable to reach outside of her fantasy world. This is the mot damaging aspect of this character's self-deception, as it denies her any type of relationship with real people."
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"The Glass Menagerie", 2002.
An analysis of the play, "The Glass Menagerie" by American playwright, Tennessee Williams.
956 words (approx. 3.8 pages), 1 source, $ 33.95
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The paper discusses the play 1944 play "The Glass Menagerie" by Tennessee Williams whose plot draws loosely on autobiographical material from the writer?s own life. The paper shows how the play describes the main character (Tom Wingfield)?s anguished struggle between the call of duty towards his mother (Amanda Wingfield) and sister (Laura Wingfield) and his desire to ?live his own life.? Tom is also the ?narrator? in the play who often moves in and out of the action. The paper discusses how, apart from the use of a narrator, "The Glass Menagerie" is notable for the use of music, screen projections and lighting effects that helped to create a dream-like effect that is appropriate for a ?memory play.? This was unusual for the time and challenged the naturalistic convention of plays of the period.
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"The play is divided into seven acts and opens in the run-down St. Louis apartment of the family sometime in 1937 with the narrator Tom reflecting on his past memory. By speaking directly to the audience through the narrator the playwright makes a deliberate departure from the naturalistic convention of plays at the time. The essential characteristics of all the characters in the play are established quickly at the beginning with the use of this technique. Amanda is a loving but nagging and meddlesome mother who annoys Tom by her demanding ways. She is also apt to live in the past and far removed from the present realities of her life as she often recalls the days when she was a young Southern belle and a single evening in her past when seventeen gentlemen suitors came calling on her."
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Tennessee Williams' "The Glass Menagerie", 2002.
Summarizes "The Glass Menagerie" by Tennessee Williams and explains the symbolism he used throughout the play.
3,420 words (approx. 13.7 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 96.95
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This paper discusses the story behind the play, "The Glass Menagerie". The focus is on explaining the symbols used in the play. Some of the symbols explained are the fire escape, the use of irony, the glass menagerie, the search for a man by both Laura and Amanda. The paper concludes by suggesting that the family in this play is dysfunctional and explains the reasons for this suggestion.
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"Amanda is obsessed with her past as she constantly reminds her children of ?one Sunday afternoon in Blue Mountain? when she received seventeen gentlemen callers (Williams 32). Amanda refuses to acknowledge that her daughter is handicapped and refers to her disability as ?a little defect (that is) hardly noticeable? (Williams 45). Only for brief moments does Amanda ever admit that her daughter is ?crippled? but then quickly reverts back into her state of denial. Amanda doesn't see anything in realistic terms. She believes that the gentleman caller, Jim, is going to be the one man who will rescue Laura, even though she has never seen or spoken to him at this point. Again, she is wrapped up in her own fantasies and delusions about men, who must act as saviors to all young women."
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"The Glass Menagerie", 2006.
A review of Scene V of the Tennessee Williams' play "The Glass Menagerie".
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This paper studies the fifth scene of the play "The Glass Menagerie," by Tennessee Williams. In this scene, Amanda has persuaded her husband Tom to find a gentleman caller for their daughter Laura. Tom has asked a fellow worker to come home with him after work one evening. This paper's author first describes the scene and then analyzes the dialogue in an attempt to better understand the characters' motivation and vision. The paper goes on to address the overarching themes of this scene -- and the larger play. The author says that "The Glass Menagerie" is about fragility, which each of the three main characters falls victim to in one way or another.
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"Amanda is not a bad mother. She really does want the best for her daughter (her son has left, more or less, her aura of control). But, she has the firm belief that her daughter is far more fragile than Laura really is. Looking at Amanda today, we might easily call her "a control freak". She wants everything planned. The worst thing that could happen to her- in her wishes and in her reality- is for her plans not to work out. She even chastises Tom when she tells him "You are the only young man that I know who ignores the fact that the future becomes the present, the present the past, and the past turns into everlasting regret if you don't plan for it." She has planned for a future that, one would think deep down in her heart, she knows will never come to pass. She does live, from time to time, in the past. It is what keeps her going, seeing the present be such an unpleasant reality. But, she even plans for a possible mismatch."
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"The Glass Menagerie", 2002.
Presents a psychological view of Tennessee Williams' play "The Glass Menagerie".
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The characters Amanda, Tom and Laura in "The Glass Menagerie" are a dysfunctional family living in individual and collective deceptions in order to deal with reality. The paper uses literary analyses of the work as well as psychological texts in order to demonstrate the deceptions that rule the Wingfield family's life.
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"The Glass Menagerie", 2007.
This paper analyzes the play "The Glass Menagerie" by Tennessee Williams.
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The paper discusses how Laura in "The Glass Menagerie" is a tragic figure because she is so dependent upon her family and so desperately afraid of the outside world. The paper looks at the brother Tom who only wants to leave and the mother, Amanda, who is controlling and lives in the past. The paper portrays how Laura is the most tragic character, resigned to a lonely fate.
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"Laura is a tragic figure in this play because even her family admits she is flawed, but they do not help her deal with her fears and distress. Her brother Tom says, "Mother, you mustn't expect too much of Laura" (Williams), which dooms her to failure and allows her to remain tragically alone throughout her life. Her family also never really faces her disability, which is the main reason she is fearful of the outside world. Her mother, Amanda, says, "Nonsense! Laura, I've told you never, never to use that word. Why, you're not crippled you just have a little defect - hardly noticeable, even!" (Williams)."
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"The Glass Menagerie", 2004.
A review of the play, "The Glass Menagerie", by Tennessee Williams.
2,544 words (approx. 10.2 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 77.95
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This paper examines how Tennessee Williams's 1944 classic, ?The Glass Menagerie?, can be considered a study in multiple-level metaphors. It attempts to demonstrate how a collection of glass ornaments is an extrinsic comparison between the lives of the characters in the play, the family dynamic shown in the play, and also the interplay between the audience, who are merely passive observers, and the actors. It looks at how, in ?The Glass Menagerie,? we trace a few slices in the lives of three individuals with different characters and yet who share the commonality of fragility; this tenuous thread weaves around the characters and can be easily shattered from within and from the outside.
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"The Glass Menagerie is about several slices in the lives of a family that lives in a rundown apartment in St. Louis. The family consists of an overbearing but concerned mother, Amanda Wingfield; a son, Tom, who is the sole breadwinner of the family; and, his sister Laura, who is possessed of a fragile physical constitution and an even fragile psyche. It is not difficult to imagine that the lives of this family resemble fragile pieces of glass arranged in a menagerie. The family is poor. The father abandoned the family several years ago and fled to Mexico. His only correspondence from Mexico was a postcard that had no return address."
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Tennessee Williams' "The Glass Menagerie", 2005.
This paper reviews the human experiences confronted in Tennessee Williams' masterpiece "The Glass Menagerie".
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This paper explores how, in Tennessee Williams' "The Glass Menagerie", a mother's solipsism and self-absorption have destroyed the relationship between her and her children. The author points out that, like pieces of a glass menagerie, the family members are stuck in grid they really cannot escape from. The paper relates that the irony is that the tighter the mother clings to her children, the more distant they become.
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"Tennessee Williams' famous play, "The Glass Menagerie", is a remarkable rendering of the human experience. This paper will explore human experience as it is presented in Williams' master-work. Specifically, this paper will talk about the tragedy visited upon the family by a mother who cannot let the past go and cannot bear to confront the present. By retreating to tyrannically control those things she can -chiefly her children - she ensures that they will not be able to escape the past, either. With that in mind, this paper turns now to Tennessee William's haunting masterpiece. In the preface to the play, Williams describes Amanda Wingfield as 'not paranoiac, but her life is paranoia' (5). She is a petite women of 'confused vitality' clinging pertinaciously to a world that no longer exists (Williams 5)."
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?The Glass Menagerie?, 2004.
An analysis of play, ?The Glass Menagerie?, by Tennessee Williams.
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This paper examines how Williams presents a number of characters who seem very different. However, despite the obvious differences, they are all living lives based on illusion to hide from the problems in their lives. The paper examines how the effectiveness of the play is related to three main points. First, by having Laura as the most extreme character, the tendency to hide from reality is emphasized and made clear. Second, by having a number of characters who all hide from reality in their own ways, Williams shows that the tendency is universal and shows that illusions cannot last. Finally, the glass menagerie in the play offers a clear symbol of the fragility and transparency of the manufactured illusions. These three main points that contribute to the effectiveness of the play are discussed in detail.
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"While Tom is the narrator and the major character of the play, Laura is the character with the most extreme qualities. She is extremely shy and while she wants to escape her life, she has no real ability to. In the play, the reader learns that she dropped out of typing school after vomiting before the first test. Her attendance at typing school was her mother?s attempt for Laura to have her career, since she does not expect her to get married. Her failure at typing school represents the end of this possibility. Even before Laura?s meeting with Jim, there is a sense that she will never either marry or have a career. She is simply too fragile and scared to face either of those possibilities. The meeting with Jim only confirms that Laura?s life will not be one where she is saved by marriage. At one point when the unicorn breaks Laura says ?Now he will feel more at home with the other horses, the ones that don?t have horns? (Williams 303). This is a sign that Laura can imagine seeing herself as normal and just like everyone else."
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"Trifles" and "The Glass Menagerie", 2007.
This paper compares and contrasts Susan Glaspell's "Trifles" and Tennessee Williams' "The Glass Menagerie".
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The paper discusses how Susan Glaspell's "Trifles" and Tennessee Williams' "The Glass Menagerie" are, in spite of the different styles they use, very similar in their subjects and especially in the way they the construct the main relationships between men and women. The paper portrays how both plays represent femininity through symbols of extreme sensibility and fragility. The paper shows how the female protagonists in the stories, "Laura" and "Mrs. Wright" are also alike in many ways.
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"Glaspell's play is thus an overt criticism of the disregard that men have for the female, seemingly unimportant world. The main relationship in the story, that between the two absent characters, Mrs. Wright and her husband, is very significant: Mr. Wright gets strangled with a rope in his sleep and the main suspect is of course, his wife. The investigations and inquiries made by the sheriff and the attorney are symbols of the typical, pragmatic and masculine world of action. In the meanwhile the wives, Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters notices the "trifles" connected with the main female occupations: the preserves, the needle work and so on. While the men are incapable of finding the most important detail of the crime, the motive, the two women discover it through their sensibility as women, and through the understanding that comes from common experience."
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"The Glass Menagerie", 2007.
An analysis of Tennessee Williams' "The Glass Menagerie" and its film portrayal directed by Paul Newman.
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This paper analyzes Tennessee Williams' "The Glass Menagerie". It particularly analyzes the theme of sacrificing family values for selfish reasons. The paper discusses the symbolism shown between all the characters, specifically those of Tom and Laura. The paper focuses on the film portrayal of the play, directed by Paul Newman, however it connects all the points made in the paper about the film, to the original script of the play, as well.
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"In the motion picture portrayal of Tennessee William's The Glass Menagerie, directed by Paul Newman, it is clearly defined how psychotically normal family life can be. Although, an outsider looking in to the lives of the main characters of this movie might find great disdain with the traits and personalities of some characters, those characters themselves find a sense of normality within their household. The story itself shows the internal conflicts that each family member faces, as the narrator, Tom, battles his conscious in a decision to live his life the way he wants or to succumb to the needs of his family. Through the pressure from his mother, Tom is forced to make a decision that affects everyone in his family, and ultimately ruins the life of his sister Laura."
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