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Essay Archive - The Glass Menagerie: Symbols
The Glass Menagerie: Symbols
"I have a poet's weakness for symbols." So states Tom Wingfield, narrator
and major character in Tennessee William's timeless play “The Glass
Menagerie”. Through the eyes of Tom, the viewer gets a glance into the life
of his family in the pre-war depression era; his mother, a southern belle
desperately clinging to the past, his sister, a young woman too fragile to
function in society, and himself, a struggling young poet working at a
warehouse to pay the bills. Williams, through his remarkable use of symbols,
is able to effectively express the theme of “The Glass Menagerie” : That o....
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