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The character of Laura and the purpose she serves in Tennessee Williams' play The Glass Menagerie are analyzed in a paper consisti...
number and must join the rat race. Individuality is not prized and someone who has opinions, especially if that person is a woman,...
This essay deal specifically with the character of Laura from The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams. The writer discusses her ...
to by Jim in very earthy, concrete terms that nonetheless indicate that she is pretty. When she says that blue "is wrong for-roses...
be physically there in the production; the idea that she has a handicap, according to Williams, need only be suggested. The proble...
her thumb. The character description of Tom tells us that is "A poet with a job in a warehouse. His nature is not remorseless, but...
visit is an old school friend of the son and daughter. In the play there is a similar sense of expectation involving this man as T...
of the American theater; it is also one of the first to combine realism and symbolism successfully. This paper discusses Williamss...
be an enduringly popular play. Not as sensational as A Streetcar Named Desire, it offers just as bleak a portrait of a family stru...
these women are not too controlling in relationship to every move their children make. This does not mean that one or the other wi...
Tom is central to defining the family stratification in the play, and also shapes a distinct view of the way familial associations...
and makes his way to her dressing room. He knocks, but then quickly enters the room, knowing that she is expecting him. The dan...
This research paper examines the character and dramatic function of "Tom" in Tennessee Williams' play The Glass Menageri...
In five pages this paper presents a character analysis of Tom as featured in Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie. Two sources...
she clearly lives in the past. At the time in which the play takes place Amanda has apparently raised her two children to adulthoo...
path to happiness. When Jim comes over for dinner on that fateful evening, he is in several instances cold and behaves selfishly....
"real" (insofar as theater can ever be said to be real) happenings, but a carefully selected group of scenes that illustrate the i...
In six pages this paper analyzes cross dressing featured in the 1982 film Tootsie through the male gaze theories of feminist autho...
own. As a result of their inability to take responsibility for the prophecy they suffered at the hands of their son. Oedipus pu...
in his pocket (Williams 22). He frequently reminds the audience that they are watching a "memory play," which means he possesses ...
scene begins Laura Wingfield (Karen Allen) and her gentleman caller Jim OConnor (James Naughton) are looking at Lauras "glass mena...
Tom, then, is the central male figure in the family. Their father has abandoned them some many years before, and so it has fallen...
decides rather early on that each of them would be better off without the other to feed, fuel and nurture the dysfunction of their...
clearly tied to Puritan religious practice, it nevertheless also has a political dimension that was particularly apt to the era in...
see the beauty in one who does not like reality, while Walkers story offers up, in many ways, a negative look at one who is not wi...
shift constantly, and she appears sometimes pitiable, sometimes conniving, sometimes difficult to escape. Descriptions of Tom and...
The mores of society are frequently presented in theatrical productions of the time. This paper describes Oedipus Rex by Sophocles...
In 5 pages this paper examines the masterful use of symbolism by Tennessee Williams in The Glass Menagerie. There are 6 sources c...
the freedom and opportunities offered by America. In other words, this immigrant mother means well. She simply wants her daughter ...
In five pages this paper discusses how sexuality is thematically portrayed in Tennessee Williams' short story 'Desire and the Blac...