The Glass Menagerie: Existentialist Responsibilities Conveyed Through the Character Tom

The story of young Tennessee Williams is portrayed poetically in the 1945 Broadway play "Glass Zoo". The hero Tom Winfield and his mother Amanda Winfield and his sister Laura Winfield lived in his apartment. Their father left the family and he still appeared on the wall of the apartment with still quiet personality. Through seven scenarios, the immaturity of each family is revealed. To find an adventure, Tom wants to become a writer, join a fleet of merchants, making his work in his family and factories like his father.

Tom Winfield, Tom 's role at "Glass Zoo", plays a dual role at "Glass Zoo". The first Tom was a narrator and he introduced his second self, a role. With his fifth uninhibited, Tom's talker showed that time did him from the drama, "Because time is the longest distance between the two places" (Williams 1568). Finally, Tom tells you how he lived in the story and reproduced the story, despite being away from the participants of the original event. Tennessee Williams' Glass Zoo is a play by Tom Winfield, one of the three leading characters. The story lived in St. Louis in 1937 with his mother Amanda and Sister Laura and is based on Tom's memories of his past life. These memories are because he can not remove his trap and is distorted from the abandonment of his sister. The title shows that the character is fragile, sensitive and versatile.

The dream of "glass zoo" and escape from all characters of "glass zoo" do not currently have the ability to live. Everyday life is so depressed that each character returns to a fantastic world through their dreams. In this article we will explore the reality faced by Amanda, Tom, Laura and Jim and explore how each role they pass through their dreams going beyond reality. Amanda "loses" her husband, two children, brothers of Tom and Laura Laura, Jim Connor (friend of Tom and Laura's high school friends) and Winfield (Tom and Laura's father, Amanda's husband) He gave up his family long before the game began. The title "The Glass Menagerie" represents a series of glass animals exhibited at Wingfields' house. At some point these animals represent each personality when they can not accept the reality. The theme of this play is the fight of characters in accepting the truth.