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This 3 page paper discusses American values as shown in “The Harry Hastings Method” and “The Glass Menagerie.” Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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and hard working; then apply these values to the play The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams and the Walter Laws short story, The Harry Hastings Method. Discussion At first glance
its hard to see how any of these values can apply to either work. The Glass Menagerie is a close examination of a family thats being destroyed from the inside
out: an overbearing mother, fragile daughter and restless son are consuming one another. The Harry Hastings Method is a very funny story of a series of burglaries in which two
people burgle each other and wind up becoming collaborators. Well have to dig deeper. In The Glass Menagerie, Laura Wingfield is a young woman with a malformed foot, which has
caused her to turn inward. She is unable to socialize in any normal manner, so she lavishes all her care and affection on her collection of glass animals. Her mother,
Amanda, was a gorgeous woman who had a great many "gentleman callers"; her brother, Tom, is restless and wants to get away from the others. There is little here that
is direct, because Williams makes his points with subtlety. There is also little honesty, because Amanda hates having a crippled daughter and so tries to tell the girl that her
physical problems are minor and not noticeable-when the girl has her leg in a brace (Williams). They are living in a dream world, and a rather ugly one at that.
The only time Tom is direct is when his mother pushes him to the limit and he screams "Youll go up, up on a broomstick, over blue Mountain with seventeen
gentlemen callers! You ugly-babbling old - witch ..." (Williams 147). But he soon apologizes for his conduct, though in fact she deserves his anger for she has raised both her
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