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THE GLASS MENAGERIE

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Tennessee Williams■ Born Thomas Lanier Williams III■ March 26, 1911 at Columbus,

Mississippi ■ Leading playwright of his age (post-

World War II)■ Had won prestigious awards such as

Pulitzer Prize and New York Drama Critics’ Awards (Streetcar Named Desired & Cat on a Hot Tin Roof)

■ His works seemed to be preoccupied with the extremes of human brutality, and sexual behavior: madness, rape, incest, nymphomania, violence, deaths

■ Died on February 25, 1983 at the age of 71.

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TheGLASS

MENAGERIE

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Introduction■ Published in 1944 by the Tenesse Williams■ The Glass Menagerie is a memory play, and its action is drawn from

the memories of the narrator.■  Tom Wingfield, tells the story from his present time (1940s) about

his life in the 1930s■ The play revolves around the escapist Tom, who is responsible to

look after his crippled sister and nagging mother.■ The play is set against the background of depression where the

characters struggle with the past, the future and with each other.

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■ Glass Menagerie is autobiographical■ Was born “Thomas Lanier Williams III,” but changed his name to

“Tennessee” at the age of 28. Different sources report various reasons for the new moniker. Some claim he received the name from a college roommate, others argue that he picked it to pay tribute to his ancestors who lived in the state of Tennessee, and some think he simply wanted to break with his past and conceal his age.

■ When Williams’ older sister Rose first became infatuated with a certain boy, Williams soon realized that he was also attracted to the same boy and his own sex.

■ Two Hollywood movie versions of The Glass Menagerie have been produced. ■ The Glass Menagerie has had a number of Broadway revivals

May 4, 1965 to October 2, 1965 at the Brooks Atkinson TheatreDecember 18, 1975 to February 22, 1976 at the Circle in the Square TheatreDecember 1, 1983 to February 19, 1984 at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre

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1989 at the Royal Exchange, Manchester directed by Ian Hastings

November 15, 1994 to January 1, 1995 at Criterion Center Stage Right

March 22, 2005 to July 3, 2005 at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre

April 2008 at the Royal Exchange, Manchester directed by Braham Murray

Off-Broadway at the Roundabout Theatre Company, March 24, 2010 to June 13, 2010

The 2013 Broadway revival began previews on September 5 with an official opening on September 26, 2013 at the Booth Theatre and closed on February 23, 2014. his production received seven 2014 Tony Award nominations

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GLASS MENAGERIECHARACTERS

CHARACTERS

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• Laura and Tom's mother.• A proud, vivacious woman who clings

fervently to memories of a vanished, genteel past.

• Simultaneously admirable, charming, pitiable and laughable.

Amanda wingfield

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Laura wingfield

• Amanda's daughter and Tom's older sister.• Laura has a bad leg, on which she has to wear a brace, and walks with a limp. • Twenty-three years old and painfully shy.• She has largely withdrawn herself from the

outside world and devotes her time to old records and her collection of glass figurines. 

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Tom wingfield

• Amanda's son and Laura's younger brother.

• An aspiring poet.• Works at a shoe warehouse to

support the family.• He is frustrated by the numbing

routine of his job and escapes from it through movies, literature and alcohol.

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Jim o'conor• An old acquaintance of Tom and Laura.

• A popular athlete in high school.• A shipping clerk at the shoe warehouse in which Tom works.• He is unwaveringly devoted to goals of professional achievement and ideals of personal success.

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Mr. wingfield• Amanda's husband, Laura and Tom's father.• A handsome man who worked for a telephone company.• Abandoned his family years before the action

of the play and never reappears onstage.• His picture is prominently displayed in the

Wingfields' living room.

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Setting of The Glass MenagerieSETTING OF THE GLASS MENAGERIE

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Wingfield Apartmen

t in St. Louis1937

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Continental Shoemakers Warehouse

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THE GLASS

MENAGERIE: A SUMMARY

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SCENE I

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• Tom Wingfield, the narrator, explains directly to the audience that the scenes are “memory,” therefore nonrealistic.

• Tom reveals the historical and social background of the play.

• Tom describes his role in the play and the other characters. One character, his father, does not appear on stage.

• Amanda begins describing all her gentleman-callers from her southern Blue Mountain days, and Laura simply tells her mother that none of those “callers” are coming for her.

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SCENE II

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• Amanda tells Laura that she visited Laura’s business college and now knows that she has been lying to her.

• Amanda whines to her daughter about her terror of what will happen to the two of them if Laura remains untrained for work, and that the only alternative is marriage.

• Laura tells her mother about Jim, her high school crush.

• Laura says marriage will not be possible because she is “crippled.”

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SCENE III

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• After the fiasco of the business college, the idea of a gentleman caller for Laura becomes an obsession with Amanda.

• Tom and Amanda quarrel after she has sent back his library books without telling him.

• This results to a fight which ends with Tom leaving.

• Tom’s jacket breaks Laura’s glass menagerie.

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SCENE IV

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• Tom went home drunk and loses his keys at the middle of the night. He just went home from watching a movie.

• The next day, Laura went to him and beg him to apologize and make up for their mother. Then, she went outside.

• Tom speaks and apologizes to Amanda.• Amanda gave him few lessons and make him

promise not to become a drunkard.

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• Amanda asked him how he feels about his life in their apartment and shared how Laura feels toward him.

• Amanda started talking about Laura’s attitude and future. She also promised to Tom that he can leave the house if Laura got herself a husband.

• Amanda asked Tom to find Laura a “gentleman caller” in the warehouse where he works.

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SCENE V

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• Amanda is giving instructions to Tom about his smoking.

• Tom narrates about “Paradise Dance Hall”.• Amanda and Tom made a wish upon

seeing the moon.• Tom tells Amanda that he got Laura a

gentleman caller. And was expected to come over tomorrow night for dinner.

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• Amanda was very excited upon hearing the news and wanted to make preparations for tomorrow.

• Amanda asked Tom about the name of the gentleman caller and his work and life.

• Tom however is much worried about Laura being different and peculiar woman.

• Amanda brushes it aside and called Laura to come over and make a wish to the moon.

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SCENE VI

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• Tom is speaking about Jim O’Connor who was “the most likely to succeed” during their high school years.

• Amanda gave her best for the upcoming dinner and prepared everything by her own. Laura was well-dressed and so do Amanda.

• Amanda showed Laura the dress that she worn during her youth days.

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• Laura found out about the identity of the gentleman caller who is coming for dinner. She knew that it was her crush during her high school year.

• Laura after knowing it was too nervous to open the door but she doesn’t have the choice because Amanda command her to do it.

• Jim and Tom came inside and talk about work.

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• Jim told Tom that Mr. Mendoza their employer is telling Jim that Tom will lose his job if he will not change.

• Tom told Jim that he paid his dues instead of the light bill to become a member of The Union of a Merchant. (He was planning to leave and become a seaman.)

• Amanda went over and started talking nonstop to Jim.

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• Amanda built-up Laura to Jim and called Laura to join them for supper.

• Laura knowing the identity of the ‘caller’, she hides in the kitchen and becoming faint and ill with a fever.

• Amanda told her to just stay in the living room and Jim, Amanda and Tom blessed the food.

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SCENE VII

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• The lights go out in the apartment so Amanda lit a candle.

• Amanda realizes that Tom didn’t pay the light bill so as a consequence she asked him to wash the dishes with her.

• Jim went to Laura. They talk for a short time until Laura asked him if he still sings.

• Jim suddenly remembered that he met her before.

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• Jim tried to cheer up Laura and gave him an advice about being confident.

• Laura told Jim her great interest- glass collection and she showed a unicorn glass menagerie.

• Jim asked Laura to dance with him and so they did it. The unicorn fell and broke its horn.

• Jim told Laura how pretty she is and he kissed her.

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• Jim confesses that he won’t be able to give Laura a call, text her or come again because he’s already engaged. Jim accepted the invitation because his fiancée is out of town.

• Laura handed him her favorite menagerie- the unicorn as a souvenir. Then he bid goodbye.

• Amanda finds out about Jim’s engagement and she fights with Tom. Tom runaway leaving them.

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THEMES

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THEME # 1

The Difficulty of Accepting

Reality

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THEME # 1

The Difficulty of Accepting Reality

Of the three Wingfields, reality has by far the weakest grasp on Laura. The private world in which she lives is populated by glass animals—objects that, like Laura’s inner life, are incredibly fanciful and dangerously delicate. 

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THEME # 1

The Difficulty of Accepting Reality

Tom is capable of functioning in the real world, as we see in his holding down a job and talking to strangers. But, in the end, he has no more motivation than Laura does to pursue professional success, romantic relationships, or even ordinary friendships, and he prefers to retreat into the fantasies provided by literature and movies and the stupor provided by drunkenness. 

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THEME # 1

The Difficulty of Accepting Reality

Amanda’s relationship to reality is the most complicated in the play. Unlike her children, she is partial to real-world values and longs for social and financial success. Yet her attachment to these values is exactly what prevents her from perceiving a number of truths about her life.

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THEME # 2

The Impossibil

ity of True Escape

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THEME # 2

The Impossibility of True Escape

The play takes an ambiguous attitude toward the moral implications and even the effectiveness of Tom’s escape. As an able-bodied young man, he is locked into his life not by exterior factors but by emotional ones—by his loyalty to and possibly even love for Laura and Amanda.

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THEME # 3DUTIES and

RESPONSIBILITIES

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THEME # 3

DUTIES and RESPONSIBILI

TIES

In The Glass Menagerie, duty and responsibility largely arise from family. The play examines the conflict between one’s obligations and one’s real desires, suggesting that being true to one may necessitate abandonment of the other. We also see that duties are gender specific, and arise largely from the expectations of societal norms.

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Other Themes

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Other Themes MEMORY AND THE PAST

WEAKNESS

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Other ThemesDECEPTION AND

LIES

DREAMS, HOPES, AND PLANS

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Symbolisms

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Laura’s Glass Menagerie

symbolisms

Laura’s collection of glass animal figurines represents a number of facets of her personality. The menagerie also represents the imaginative world to which Laura devotes herself—a world that is colorful and enticing but based on fragile illusions.

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The Glass Unicorn

The glass unicorn in Laura’s collection—significantly, her favorite figure—represents her peculiarity. Laura too is unusual, lonely, and ill-adapted to existence in the world in which she lives. The fate of the unicorn is also a smaller-scale version of Laura’s fate in Scene Seven. 

symbolisms

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The Fire Escape

The fire escape, a physical symbol, is used symbolically to represent various aspects of being trapped or as a method of escape. As Williams writes, the "huge buildings are always burning with the slow and implacable fires of human desperation."  

symbolisms

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REFERENCES:Play Summary. Retrieved November 1, 2016 from https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/g/the-glass-menagerie/play-summary

The Glass Unicorn. Retrieved November 1, 2016 from https://www.google.com.ph/search?q=glass+menagerie&biw=1366&bih=638&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjdmbacjIfQAhXHzLwKHS6NCe8Q_AUIBigB#tbm=isch&q=The+Glass+Unicorn&imgrc=5W5xr9Cn8Z60-M%3A

The Fire Escape. Retrieved November 1, 2016 from https://www.google.com.ph/search?q=themes&biw=1366&bih=589&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiMwP2UoYfQAhWGxbwKHZDyAVQQ_AUIBigB#tbm=isch&q=The+Fire+Escape&imgrc=4RQ-vL9Ne3UakM%3A

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