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A 3 page essay that discusses the character of Laura from Tennessee Williams’ poignant play “The Glass Menagerie.” There are a number of similarities between Laura Wingfield and the small glass animals that she collects. As with her small glass animals, Laura is fragile, both in health and temperament. Also, like her animals, which are a beautiful expression of art, Laura herself has an ethereal beauty. This metaphor also connects Laura with nature as the shapes of her glass suggest the natural world, which is distant from the play’s urban setting. As this suggests, the glass menagerie itself can be viewed as a metaphor for understanding Laura’s inner nature and Romantic beauty. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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collects. As with her small glass animals, Laura is fragile, both in health and temperament. Also, however, like her animals, which are a beautiful expression of art, Laura herself has
an ethereal beauty. This metaphor also connects Laura with nature as the shapes of her glass suggest the natural world, which is distant from the plays urban setting. As this
suggests, the glass menagerie itself can be viewed as a metaphor for understanding Lauras inner nature and Romantic beauty. Like the glass animals, Laura is fragile. In early childhood, she
contracted an illness that left "one leg slightly shorter than the other" (Williams 5). Furthermore, there are references in the play to Laura suffering from faintness and nausea and, as
a teenager, she contracted pleurisy, which is an infection that affects the thin membrane that covers the lungs causing a greater deal of difficult in breathing (Cardullo 161). Jim OConnor
recalls that he misunderstood this medical term when Laura told him at the time, as they attended the same high school. He thought she said "Blue Roses" (Cardullo 161).
This nickname for Laura not only alludes to her fragility, but also to her "yearning for both ideal...beauty and spiritual or romantic love" (Cardullo 161). Lauras ethereal beauty is referred
to by Jim in very earthy, concrete terms that nonetheless indicate that she is pretty. When she says that blue "is wrong for-roses" (Williams 106), Jim insists that this is
right for her because she is pretty "in a very different way from anyone else...Theyre common as-weeds, but-you-well, youre-Blue Roses" (Williams 105). The stage directions that Williams wrote requires
that the light placed on Laura should be "distinct from the others" and have a "pristine clarity such as light used in early religious portraits of female saints or madonnas"
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