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A 9 page paper (8.5 pp. + 1/2 pg. outline) which compares and contrasts the perceptions of reality and illusion in the respective plays. Bibliography lists 9 sources.
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Tracy Gregory, September 2001 -- properly! The Great Depression and World War II forever changed America.
There was a collective sense of lost innocence that was reflected in the American dramas of the 1940s. The American Dream, which had loomed large over the horizon,
was now exposed to be little more than a contrived materialistic illusion. The inevitable clash between perceptions of reality and illusion made for classic theater, which was forever immortalized
in two powerful works from fledgling playwrights, Tennessee Williams The Glass Menagerie (1944), and Arthur Millers Death of a Salesman (1949). Each play dealt with protagonists who had been,
in some way, displaced by the modern world. The external action in both plays was propelled by inner conflicts rooted in the characters often confused perceptions of illusion and
reality. Williams dramatic debut, The Glass Menagerie, focused upon the Wingfields, a dysfunctional family who lived in a rundown St. Louis tenement during the 1930s. The father had
deserted the family years before, and when the reality of their depressing existence proved to be too much, Tom (the plays narrator), his mother Amanda, and his sister Laura retreat
into their own safe havens of illusion. As one critic observed, "No matter how urban their immediate settings may be, there is always a... setting in which Williams characters
may take refuge. Often this refuge is a mental one--an escape through memory to a simpler, more idyllic past" (Phillips 59). The Glass Menagerie distinguished itself from other
works of the time in that Williams wanted to make the dual perceptions between illusion and reality just as palpable for the audience as for the characters. By making
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