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

be physically there in the production; the idea that she has a handicap, according to Williams, need only be suggested. The proble...

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

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...

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

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...

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

the one who is primarily the main focus of the play and it is her collection that bears the title of the story, as she collects gl...

scene begins Laura Wingfield (Karen Allen) and her gentleman caller Jim OConnor (James Naughton) are looking at Lauras "glass mena...

we look at the content of the play and how it may be staged we have a better idea of how to interpret the work. It is after lookin...

around the characters. Through the decaying setting, and also a setting that is quite dreamlike, the story begins on a very allusi...

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

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

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

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

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...

for she "She breathes with motherly tenderness and love for all, for life itself. And Linda has a heart full and hands outstretche...

at home. He has to find some way to escape without destroying his family the way his father had sixteen years ago. It is for this ...

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

In seven pages this paper contrasts and compares how the authors utilize symbolism in these respective works. Seven sources are c...

noted that a number of other characters, including Big Daddy, create the social perspective through which Brick and Maggies relati...

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

she says, but for the first time we suspect she is not going to be able to do that. Here we have to conclude there is a definite...

in the direction of other family members. Outside their own room and their private conversations, however, the subjects they rais...

of the American theater; it is also one of the first to combine realism and symbolism successfully. This paper discusses Williamss...

in his pocket (Williams 22). He frequently reminds the audience that they are watching a "memory play," which means he possesses ...

With Amanda and Laura however, it is the way into reality (Symbolism in The Glass Menagerie). In the case of Laura the fire escape...

function as one interfused mass of automatism" (Williams 3). This is a setting that exists perhaps in every large city in the na...

of Blue Mountains finest male suitors. She makes frequent mention of Blue Mountain and Blue Roses, and one can assume this symbol...