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Tom is central to defining the family stratification in the play, and also shapes a distinct view of the way familial associations...

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

he was so sick. The first I knew about it was a call from my Mom. She didnt give me any details over the phone, just said Dad was ...

belief in the "American way," but even at the cost of his sanity he is still unable to succeed. What he has done is to instill the...

so gifted and so special that the world will fall at their feet simply because they exist (Miller). As a result, Biff and Happy (p...

model to his boys of what a successful and well-respected man should be; however, the legacy he left as a father was a model of ho...

His fathers expectations of him are something that Biff knows he can never fulfill, therefore, he becomes critical of himself when...

the children, "It was festival, carnival" (line 15). These contradictory images to how house fires are generally perceived are mad...

In six pages this paper discusses pure glass and polymer laminated glass properties and how laminated products are useful in the p...

In a paper consisting of 6 pages the destructive relationship between father and son is examined in terms of the father's warped s...

In 10 pages this paper examines how in each of these plays staging is used to convey the illusions of their characters. Nine sour...

to be with his father in the last months of his life, as he would have wished. This would make him think deeply about his own life...

even death. Rather than comply, Hermia elopes with Lysander, fleeing into the woods. Shakespeare emphasizes the enormous consequen...

he has always valued charisma over actual skill or knowledge. This point is shown in a flashback in which Willy asks his oldest ...

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

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

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...

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

wall, "deserted his wife and children sixteen years earlier" (Koprince and Bloom). Tom describes him as a "a telephone man who fel...

This essay pertains to how Laura, Amanda and Tom Wingfield each relate to Jim O'Connor on a symbolic level. Four pages in length, ...

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

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,...

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...

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 ...

she clearly lives in the past. At the time in which the play takes place Amanda has apparently raised her two children to adulthoo...

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...

character of Laura is very illustrative of this, and she is somewhat reminiscent of such women as Ophelia, from Shakespeares Hamle...

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

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...