Illusions of Escape in The Glass Menagerie

By escaping from the "Glass Zoo" fantasy Tennessee Williams' s "Glass Zoo", the reader can understand a truly dysfunctional family. At first, their life seems unusual, but Amanda's urge to protect her single parent family seems to be as well known as the morning post (Presley 53). Winfield is a typical family and works hard to overcome difficulties. But their problem arises from the fact that they can not effectively communicate with each other. Instead of talking about the differences, they took desperate action. The despair of Wingfields makes them fancy in their minds, which in turn will be deceiving. Zuman

As a human being, we are all addicted to fantasy and escape mechanisms. In "The Glass Menagerie", Tennessee Williams showed me a family that shows a tendency of human beings that avoid us to avoid the reality and unhappy. Unfortunately, after all, for the Wingfield family, these survival mechanisms we can see that there is likely to be destructive rather than useful. Mother Amanda Wingfield lives in her past. During the Great Depression she was a single mother living in poverty with two adult children. But she thought and acted as if she were a child when she was a child in the southern part. In particular, for the story of "Blue Mountain Sunday afternoon ... 17 gentlemen came over the phone," she said repeating the same story. Her house showed me the real size picture of my husband who abandoned my family years ago. It is as if he was a glorious husband and patriarch. Her behavior is like a frivolous southern part of the beauty that not wearing a neat clothes in her youthful attire.

By escaping from the "Glass Zoo" fantasy Tennessee Williams' s "Glass Zoo", the reader can understand a truly dysfunctional family. At first, their life seems unusual, but Amanda's urge to protect her single parent family seems to be as well known as the morning post (Presley 53). Winfield is a typical family and works hard to overcome difficulties. But their problem arises from the fact that they can not effectively communicate with each other. Instead of talking about the differences, they took desperate action. The despair of Wingfields makes them fancy in their minds, which in turn will be deceiving. Zuman

Symbolism in "Glass Zoo" played an important role in Tennessee Williams' play "Glass Zoo". Examples of the use of symbolism include escaping as a escape from family, gramophone, escape, unicorn, Laura's uniqueity and representation of different characters of each character as a symbol of father's picture. By identifying these symbols, you can better understand the theme of the game. Through the play of Winfield, Tennessee Williams' glass menace is depicted as a frustrating southern beauty trying to control her child's life. In The Glass Menagerie, Amanda is a woman responsible for a small family, initially looks like a woman who care about the future of the child - before she becomes too arrogant, she starts to hinder the future of the child . Amanda is a single mother who can not master reality. Glass Menagerie is a memory drama.