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Symbols In "The Glass Menagerie"

"The Glass Menagerie", "Blue Mountain", "The Fire Escape" and "The Unicorn"
are symbols in the " Glass Menagerie" Discuss Williams use of these symbols
in the "Glass Menagerie".
Mirroring, the social and economic despair of the thirties in the
U.S, "The Glass Menagerie" in nostalgia for a past world and its evocation
of loneliness and lost love celebrates, above all, the human need to dream.
Amanda Wingfield resents the poverty - stricken neighborhood in
which she lives, so much so that she needs to escape mentally from it by
invented romance and self-deception. Williams describes her as having
"endurance and a kind of heroism, but she is also silly, snobbish,
sometimes cruel and ...

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on her unwilling children, living in the past with pretensions to
glory.
"In the South we had so many servants. Gone. All vestige of
gracious living! I wasn't prepared for what the future brought me". p.64.
The glass menagerie represents an escape from reality for Laura.
Tennessee Williams has said:
Those little glass animals came to represent in my memory all the
softest emotions that belong to the recollection of things past. They stood
for all the small and tender things that relieve ...

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