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Fantasy in James Thurber's 'The Secret Life of Walter Mitty' and Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie

memory of past events. He explains that he will not be a narrator, "I am the opposite of a stage magician. He gives you illusion t...

Memory Play Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie

decides rather early on that each of them would be better off without the other to feed, fuel and nurture the dysfunction of their...

Comparative Analysis of Lorraine Hansberry's Raisin in the Sun and Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie

the additional mouth to feed will put the family into jeopardy. The audience knows that she is considering abortion. To end all of...

Character Comparison and Contrast of Laura in Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie and Sophocles' Antigone

number and must join the rat race. Individuality is not prized and someone who has opinions, especially if that person is a woman,...

Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie and Jim's Character

path to happiness. When Jim comes over for dinner on that fateful evening, he is in several instances cold and behaves selfishly....

Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire and the Power Struggle Between Stanley and Blanche

Mississippi and later St. Louis Williams was teased about his deep southern accent and changed his name to Tennessee. Because of f...

Tennessee Williams' Style of Writing

Within these tragedies, the unfortunate fate of the hero or heroine is usually determined by some type of sexual desire. The them...

Social Failure in Tennessee Williams’ “Glass Menagerie”

In many ways the social failure of America as a whole at this time in history is symbolized by the personal failure experienced...

Comparative Analysis of Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman and Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie

In four pages this paper analyzes human dreams in a contrast and comparison of these two award winning American dramas. Two sourc...

Eugene O'Neill's Desire Under the Elms, Tennessee Williams' Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and Oppression

In five pages this paper discusses the importance of oppressive setting in each of these dramatic works. There are no other sourc...

Drama in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams

In seven pages this paper examines the dramatic personalities of characters Brick, Big Daddy, and Maggie in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof ...

Protagonist Brick Pollitt in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams

In five pages this paper explains why Brick is the protagonist of this award winning drama by Tennessee Williams as his character ...

Analysis of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams

In five pages this paper examines the characterizations, theme of mendacity, and the dramatic structure of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, ...

Decadence and the Character of Blanche Du Bois in A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams

In six pages this paper discusses how decadence is thematically portrayed in the characterization of Blanche in A Streetcar Named ...

Cannibalism in Suddenly Last Summer by Tennessee Williams

In three pages this paper discusses Suddenly Last Summer in terms of the fantastic and metaphoric nature of cannibalism in this da...

Analyzing 4 Important Plays by Tennessee Williams

In six pages this paper analyzes the plays The Glass Menagerie, A Streetcar Named Desire, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, and Night of the ...

Communication in Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire, The Glass Menagerie, and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

the victory of a cat on a hot tin roof?-I wish I knew...? (Cat...Roof, Act one 25). The theme of lack of communication lies at ...

Tennessee Williams and His Streetcar

of Tennessee Williams"). To relieve his boredom, Williams wrote at night but he broke down, depressed, after the breakup with Kram...

A Comparison, Willy Loman and Blanche DuBois

A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams, and Willy Loman, in Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller, are two of American thea...

Character of Laura in The Glass Menagerie

This essay deal specifically with the character of Laura from The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams. The writer discusses her ...

Williams, Melville, and Jackson

offers a very powerful image of the lives these people live trapped in a tiny apartment and in their individual lives. Melville...

Fantasy: Death of a Salesman and The Glass Menagerie

slowly come to a point where he realizes he is out of time and "His mind has run out of control. He is confused and no longer able...

Forecasting for a Fast Food Outlet

and ice creams sold in the summer, this looks at the trends rather than just the past performance. Regression analysis takes th...

Innovative Use of Symbolism by Playwright Tennessee Williams in The Glass Menagerie

part of the illusionary world. Laura, on the other hand, thinks of the fire escape as a way in and not a way out. This can be seen...

Literary Device of Symbolism

Morrisons work because water is symbolic of Beloveds need to fulfill a basic desire, but also a thirst for freedom. Another impo...

David Mamet, Sam Shepard, and the Dramatic Idiom

plight of small-time con-men, dubious real estate salesmen and other marginal types, explore a desperate, obsessed landscape that ...

Exile in Works of American Literature

In five pages this paper applies Nietzsche's Existentialism to an analysis of exile in The Awakening by Kate Chopin and A Streetca...

Los Angeles' and New Orleans' Tensions

product of their heritage in many ways, for they are from the Old South, a place where women looked good, if they were wealthy, an...

Theatrical Set Design of A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams

stairs ascend to the entrances of both" (Williams 1797). There is a glimpse of the sky that "gracefully attenuates the atmosphere...

Depiction of Tom Wingfield in the 1987 Film Adaptation of The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams

Tom, then, is the central male figure in the family. Their father has abandoned them some many years before, and so it has fallen...