Essay Archive - The Glass Menagerie
The Glass Menagerie
The play The Glass Menagerie, by Tennessee Williams, Williams uses
many symbols which represent many different things. Many of the symbols
used in the play try to symbolize some form of escape or difference between
reality and illusion.
The first symbol, presented in the first scene, is the fire escape.
This represents the "bridge" between the illusory world of the Wingfields
and the world of reality. This "bridge" seems to be a one way passage. But
the direction varies for each character. For Tom, the fire escape is the
way out of ....
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