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Essay Archive - Symbols in "The Glass Menagerie"
Symbols in "The Glass Menagerie"
"The Glass Menagerie", "Blue Mountain", "The Fire Escape" and "The Unicorn"
are symbols in the " Glass Menagerie" Discuss Williams use of these symbols
Mirroring, the social and economic despair of the thirties in the
U.S, "The Glass Menagerie" in nostalgia for a past world and its evocation
of loneliness and lost love celebrates, above all, the human need to dream.
Amanda Wingfield resents the poverty - stricken neighborhood in
which she lives, so much so that she needs to escape mentally from it by
invented romance and self-deception. Williams describes her as h....
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