tragedy,branch of drama that treats in a serious and dignified style the sorrowful or terrible events encountered or caused by a heroic individual.The ultimate tragedy of the play is that each character is haunted by the limiting effects of memory, specifically by creating an illusion of escape from their present imprisonment due to past actions.Plot Arrangement of incidents, the calculated structure that achives maximum intellectual, emotional, and aesthetic effect. The Glass Menagerie follows Aristotles element of a cyclic plot, in which plot structures usually reflect the values and philosophy of the societies that produce them (Greenwald 36)They are intentionally unresolved; instead, they end much the way they began, suggesting the futility of life. Exposition provides the necessary background of time, place, plot, character, and social context for understanding the play and its issues. Point of attack Start of play, Protagonist Tom, Antagonist Amanda (Concerned mother, but her antagonist appeal is due to her relationship with her children as well as her Southern Belle viewpoints)Complication Toms own motives, wanting to be a sailor merchant, and the funds needed and its result of abandoning mother/sister. Climax When Tom brings Jim home, where everyone assumes this will be the end of their misery and the escape from their financial and social issues. Denouement Ties up loose ends of plot, the fate of the characters is revealed, harmony is restored, future is determined. We can conclude that Tom is forever haunted by his memories of abandoning his mother and sister, and his mother and sister faces an inventible fate of social isolation and financial burdens.

Characters Usually change because something profound happens to them. Thought Ideas or theme: Thoughts, beliefs, values,vary from culture to culture and are subject to change and reevaluation.Greenwald states that Aristotles Thought element refers to the theme or idea of the element, as Greenwald analyzes, Because most of us are products of Western culture, there is a tendency to evaluate the thoughts raised by plays from other cultures in terms of our own experience. Music Music is used in two main ways in the Glass Menagerie: it provokes specific emotion from the audience at key moments in the play, and it also reminds the audience that the play itself is a memory throughout the plot.