Themes Of Tennessee Williams
In the three plays by Tennessee Williams the Glass Menagerie, The Long Goodbye, and Suddenly Last Summer, they all share the same general theme. This theme is that no matter how low you are in your life you can always rise above your problems and get your life on the right track. In The Glass Menagerie, Laura is the one that has to rise above her disability problem. She overplays her disability and this is what is holding her down from going onto bigger and better things. In The Long Goodbye, Joe thinks he just can't write anymore in the beginning, but in the end he comes through, and rises above his writing problems. In Suddenly Last Summer, the main character, Mrs. Venable is ...
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In the first of the three plays, The Glass Menagerie, Laura expresses the theme of you can overcome your obstacles in life no matter how hard they seem, by her actions. She has a disability with her legs and had to wear a special support on her leg to help her with it. She overplays her disability to the point that she will not go to Business College, she is very shy around other people, and will barely leave the apartment at all. You know how much Laura is bothered by her disability by this quote. " It was hardly even noticeable." Said Jim. " I just thought it was making a thunderous clumping noise." By this quote, you now see that Laura is exaggerating her disability in her mind, and in actuality it isn't that drastic. Jim tells her that it wasn't noticed by most of the kids, but she made it much bigger than it really was. You can also see how shy she is by this next quote. " You answer the door mother!" This quote shows how shy that Laura is, that she ...
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This quote shows how, even though Joe was down he was not out. Another factor in Joe's ending success might be credited to his sister. Without his sister, he would have had no support, and without that he might have not been able to come through after he was down. Joe was like Williams, in that they both overcame serious problems and succeeded in achieving their goal. Williams rose above the bullies, because he did not lower himself to the bully's level and try to fight back. Joe is a good
example of Tennessee's younger years when he was picked on by bullies, but rose above them and succeeded. This shows how even though the odds are against someone if they strive to succeed hard ...
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